SIR - Councillor Peachey (Letters, June 21) is quite right, the Sainsbury saga in St John's is a public disgrace and it has continued for far too long.
As a resident, I would summarise the situation rather differently from the councillor, however.
For well nigh on a decade, Sainsbury has owned enough land to build a store the size of the Co-op. The burned-out cinema, the derelict depot site, the dangerous empty buildings are all its.
The trouble is it wants a store three times as big and because this would bring the council shed loads of money, they are quite happy to wait.
The damage to the economic viability of the small shops in St John's and the increase in traffic and CO2 emissions apply to Sainsbury and Tesco alike. I wish supermarket companies and their friends would leave St John's alone.
DAVID BIRTWHISTLE, Worcester.
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