21st December 2017 By Rashleigh MacFarlane Councillors have voted 9-3 in favour of plans to build a Lidl supermarket on the site of Truro City football club. The footballers hope…
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So we have another supermarket in Truro, bringing us up to 6, but nowhere for the local football club or their supporters to watch them and have a social time out and nowhere for juniors to go and train and get fit. If this isn’t capitalism and deference to greedy developers gone mad I don’t know what is. Personally I truly hope the stadium is never built at Langarth, relying on public money to put the infrascture in, taking up a greenfield site and increasing traffic, but I really think there needs to be local sports facilities for everyone to enjoy. Th football club was one.