Operators may pay a high price for supermarket blunder

10 January 2008
 
A ground-breaking bus project in Sheffield is being threatened by traffic from a proposed Tesco, which council planners knew about before the project was launched.

Now, the supermarket giant is being asked to stump up a financial bond to pay for any road adaptations, if the extra traffic affects the North Sheffield Quality Partnership Scheme (NSQPS), believed to be the first of its kind in the country.

Under the scheme, put together by South Yorkshire PTE, Sheffield City Council and bus operators, public money goes into improving the infrastructure to let buses run more freely and, in return, bus firms only use high-quality vehicles. It launched last year in the northern sector of the city, but no-one told the PTE that at one significant junction there were plans for a major supermarket and car parking for 800 vehicles.

The supermarket development is seen as a flagship regeneration project for this part of the city and was being mooted in the late 1990s. But the city council has defended its decision to go ahead with the bus project before plans for the supermarket site were agreed.

A council spokeswoman said: ‘During discussions concerning the NSQPS, no application had been made and the proposals were only just beginning to emerge. As a result, team members were unable to factor it into the NSQPS, but were mindful that it would potentially come forward at a later date.’

She confirmed Tesco would be asked for a financial bond to cover any future road adaptations, but said planners believed there would be minimal impact.

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