I would like to let all see a diagram that has been sent to me that shows the scale of the proposed Asda, and, to help realise just how big it is, it shows the same outline, to scale, at other locations. (I just hope I can upload it properly!)
The red outline is that of the proposed store.

I was wondering if the origional is a larger pic? If so, please email me the picture and I will place a larger version on the server. Thanks.

http://www.exmouthonline.com/images//asda%20%26%20eddc%20110408rotate.jpg

As promised!

Not sure if there's a bit of confusion here ... the proposed sales area for Asda is 40k sq ft, the overall size of the building is , at a guess 70k sq ft , possibly more.

Still difficult to imagine, but if you do know what 40k sq ft looks like, then add another 50%+ on top !!

Above comes from the ASM presentation to EDDC last December.

@Sceptic. It looks as though the Asda actually goes over the road, so that people coming into the town will have to drive through it. ; ) Could this be the first ever drive-thru superstore?

On another note: apparently the people of the ECF are being seen as 'not positive' because they are criticising the council's plans and not coming up with any ideas of their own. So, not only are we already wasting a large proportion of our lives trying to stop a council plan no one wanted in the first place - we're now expected to spend even more of our valuable time coming up with a proposal of our own too. Perhaps the council would like to give me the money they give their planning advisors and consultants and i'll come up with a spectacular plan. Until then, i was rather hoping our town planners might ..maybe..i dunno..do the job they're paid to do? or is that too much to ask?

The idea, by the way, that the plan for the Asda is somehow a 'positive' proposal is risible. When positively wanting to destroy things is regarded as positive and negatively wanting to save things is regarded as negative one wonders if the game is worth the candle and whether it's time to concede defeat. As they said on Nathan Barley: 'the idiots are winning'.

It's also been bruited that mr John Wokersien the town clerk remarked that he'd heard of some reports about Asda impacting badly on local business, but he'd also heard others in which Asda actually had a positive effect. Clearly I've been previous in my opposition to Asda and not been even-handed in my judgment. In my naivety i had thought it illogical and bizarre to assert that moving the world's largest and most brutally competitive corporation into a small seaside town would not adversely affect local business. Clearly there are two sides to every story.

That's why, spurred by the example of our town clerk, I have decided to join the Flat Earth Society and the Holocaust Deniers. I also now believe in aliens. If you don't hear from me again it's because i've been abducted. The truth is out there.

Going off the ASDA theme, but staying (loosely) within the Regeneration theme: can anyone shed light on why a strip/lap-dancing club is permitted in a family holiday resort but a sandwich bar is deemed unsuitable? The health food shop (now closed)in Exeter Road had a planning application for change of use - but turned down by Exmouth Council.

Is the world going mad?!?!

Perhaps my comment may be deemed 'not positive'.