On Tuesday 18 October 2011, the Woking Borough Council Planning Department granted Sainsbury’s extended opening hours for 18 months (reviewable) with regard to their application to develop the Clifton’s site in High Street, Knaphill. Effectively this means that the development of the site will go ahead from the Spring of 2012 despite hundreds of objections by local residents.
However, many other people think that this will be a good thing for the centre of the village.
Others feel that it would have been more advantageous if a separate retailer such as Lidl or Iceland for instance took over the premises. Some residents claim that this would have then given local consumers a much wider choice of products and price rather than more of the same from Sainsbury’s who have also had their application to extend their main supermarket in Redding Way, Knaphill approved by WBC.
What do YOU think?


