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  Well put Chris.
  
  The proposal just exposes the kind organisation Asda is. There is no attempt to make any physical links with the town and the 'design' looks as if it has been drawn up in isolation. No attempt to do anything other than facilitate a supermarket.
  
  Howard mentions competition but that only really relate to businesses of similar scale. We only have to look at the effect Wetherspoons has had on central Dover pubs. The same principles apply and the overwheliming success of the 8 bells is people just go for the cheap option, they don't move on to the smaller, better, yet slightly more expensive pubs and bars.
  
  Offering up parts of the site as part of an overall vision is far more sustainable, offering diversity and capacity for change. The word monolithic keeps appearing on this thread and this really does sum up the problem with supermarkets. The monolithic nature of objects like this offer nothing other than one use. Architecturally this is the problem we have with Burlington House, we are stuck in a dialogue with something that is embedded in the town. Once Asda is here there is no going back, no ability to adjust and reshape the urban fabric. There are masterplans produced highlighting the 'grain' of the town and yet this development ignors their existance. Are people even looking at everything or just a supermarket in isolation. Who's advising our officials.
  
  I'm not denying the hard work of individual to develop the site and pretty much accept that Asda will happen, but I ask the question again; will someone tell me; what the problems are; how this solves them and where else has anything like this happened for the better?

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