According to a leaflet delivered last week, Stephen McHugh states that they’ve done their best to ensure that supermarkets are kept out of Sale Moor to ‘maintain the vibrancy of Sale Moor Village Shops’.

If you want see vibrancy get yourself to Ashton-on-Mersey village or Timperley village and see for yourselves.

In Ashton, Tesco is next to the Co-Op and various shopkeepers there have reported that they’ve never been so busy. The same applies to Timperley village since Sainsbury’s moved in as car owners are leaving their cars behind and doing all their shopping in the village.

In fact, one of the main objectors once wrote to ‘The Messenger’ complaining he had to bank his takings in Sale as there were no banks in Sale Moor.

Who knows, with another supermarket we will have additional footfall, possibly a bank, which is the way forward.

Has anyone asked the people who actually shop in Sale Moor? Spare a thought for mums with prams, older residents who can’t walk far, disabled residents who can’t get on a bus, shop assistants who work in Sale Moor, carers who shop for over 300 housebound people and anyone who does not own a car.

At the last count, there were 14,000 residents in Sale Moor and if they all shopped in Sale Moor some of the shop owners would be millionaires.

Ever Hopeful,

Mrs S Millner 

Sale Moor