Householders fight supermarket's 24-hour opening plan

8:39am Tuesday 7th August 2012 in News By Stephanie Cureton

Householders fight supermarket's 24-hour opening plan Householders fight supermarket's 24-hour opening plan

WIRRAL residents are fighting plans for a supermarket to be open round-the-clock.

Asda in Liscard has applied to Wirral Council to have their trading hours adjusted to 24 hours a day from Monday to Saturday.

However, residents and local councillors have joined forces to object to the changes and are hoping their voices will be heard.

They are concerned about noise levels from the superstore and have set up a petition against the scheme.

Neighbouring resident Sandra Scott, whose house backs onto Asda’s car park, said her family’s quality of life would be significantly reduced if the retail giant is given the green light.

The 44-year-old said: “We really feel that it would have an extremely negative effect on our quality of life. The main issues are car alarms going off in the middle of the night and the level of noise coming from the supermarket would be a permanent issue.

“When we moved here 18 years ago, there was no trading on a Sunday and Asda shut at 5.30pm in the week – it is a completely different story now and we already have to put up with a lot.

“It just seems to us that that this is an aggressive attempt to increase profit to keep shareholders happy. Local families are not being considered.”

If approved, the plans would mean that Asda’s Sunday opening hours would still be 10am – 4pm.

However, ward councillor Leah Fraser believes extended trading times during weekdays are not appropriate for a residential area.

Councillor Fraser said: “If you look at other supermarkets that have 24 hour opening times, such as Tesco in Bidston, there are no houses in the immediate vicinity.

“But this Asda is surrounded by houses and it is simply not fair to expect people to put up with it. They already have to deal with the noise from cars coming in and out and the bottle bank so to add to that would not be right.”

Wirral’s planning committee are expected to make a ruling in the Autumn.

Comments(18)

Wirral.Talk says...
11:00am Tue 7 Aug 12

I don't think it would be as bad as people think but the male said in the report “We really feel that it would have an extremely negative effect on our quality of life" well i can tell you wirral council wont be interested in that. We had a pub open just metres away from our home in Birkenhead and we had no notification at all and then started getting loud music and bottles and glasses left on our windows and paths and the council or police wouldn't do a thing about it. Wirral Council just give these licences out without thinking about anybody else.

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Uncle_Fester says...
11:47am Tue 7 Aug 12

As a Liscard resident, I look forward to Asda being open 24 hours. I presume there will be the necessary precautions in place with respect to unnecessary noise levels during the night though.

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Positive thinker says...
10:54pm Tue 7 Aug 12

Can only be good news as it will
create employment

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lucylou24 says...
10:41am Wed 8 Aug 12

car alarms going off in the night can happen anyway without a supermarket being open, your next door neighbors car alarm could be set off during the night....

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ordinary personn says...
3:31pm Wed 8 Aug 12

TBH - the ASDA in Ellesmere Port is open 24 hours (it is situated in a residential area) and from what my friends tell me hardly anybody uses it much in the middle of the night. In fact rumour has it that it may start closing at night. So if the store in Liscard gets permission there hopefully there should not be too much additional disruption for residents. If I was a Walmart exec I'd be doing a cost benefit analysis to see if the added costs of extended opening would realistically result in a decent profit.

But the mystery to me is - why on earth would anybody want to go shopping after 21.00 and before 06.00 anyway? I know shift workers may need longer hours but surely 24 hours isn't really needed?

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ClayRushton says...
4:50pm Wed 8 Aug 12

I live just down the road from this ASDA and think longer opening times would be brilliant, though possibly just 24 hours over a Friday night/Saturday on a trial basis?

There are no 24 hour shops (that I know of) around here other than the petrol station in Seacombe which charges diabolical prices.

I think it would be a massive convenience to walk down the road and get what you need, when you need it.

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King Tut says...
6:09pm Wed 8 Aug 12

There is already staff working on site 24 hours (stocking shelves etc), didn't the ASDA in Woodchurch lock the trollys away at night and close off half of the car park that was closest to the adjacent houses.

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spamfiend says...
7:01pm Wed 8 Aug 12

King Tut wrote:
There is already staff working on site 24 hours (stocking shelves etc), didn't the ASDA in Woodchurch lock the trollys away at night and close off half of the car park that was closest to the adjacent houses.
This true and by having a couple of people watching the tills at the same time as replenishment of stock, it means that the doors are open to allow people to pop in if needed.
As for the why would anyone want to, I was so grateful for the 24 hour Tesco when my daughter was born because at 3 in the morning when she wouldn't sleep, she went in the pram and off we went as opposed to wandering the streets lol..

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JimmyMercury says...
9:18pm Wed 8 Aug 12

Thought Leah Fraser was a Wallasey Village Councillor?

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uncatom says...
9:54am Thu 9 Aug 12

Is there really a need for 24hour opening?when we have tesco's that open for those hours,is it going to be life threatening to go without a loaf or a bottle of milk for a few hours? and what about the anti social element that might wish to purchase their booze and party in the car park,we have 2 24 hour shops in Wallasey Village which mainly supply drink to the anti socials

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bickyboy says...
9:55am Thu 9 Aug 12

Most predictable headline news of the week: "Princess Leah mounts another bandwagon". My word, that hair is wonderful.

Asda will get what they want, because one way or another, supermarkets always do. Let's face it: in Wallasey they now have serious competition from Morrisons so its simply about business needs, right?

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ClayRushton says...
10:35am Thu 9 Aug 12

uncatom wrote:
Is there really a need for 24hour opening?when we have tesco's that open for those hours,is it going to be life threatening to go without a loaf or a bottle of milk for a few hours? and what about the anti social element that might wish to purchase their booze and party in the car park,we have 2 24 hour shops in Wallasey Village which mainly supply drink to the anti socials
Tesco is a long enough drive away, let alone walk, what are those of us without a car supposed to do?

do you find people drinking in the car park now? no, so I very much doubt people will use it for a 'party' when there's a supermarket open which will have sufficient security to cope with such events.

& If you're referring to the CostCutter petrol station and the likes, then that argument is invalid as they charge diabolical prices on everything.

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uncatom says...
7:02pm Thu 9 Aug 12

Clayrushton,
It sounds as if you want Asda to open at night for you to shop personally, how do you reckon people managed years ago with the limited opening hours? closed Sundays some on saturdays shut Wednesday half a day, shopworkers have lives as well, shopping hours are obscene as it is,as to sufficient security they have none per se only the ordinary shop staff why should they be left to deal with any security matters?

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Positive thinker says...
7:52am Fri 10 Aug 12

I drove through Liscard on Wednesday,was suprised at what a good job they've carried out on what use to be the ABC picture house and the surrounding shops it all looks ocupied
After laying empty/derilict for what seemed such a long time,Liscard needs all the help it can get maybe it wouldn't be such a problem to grant Asda the planing permission as can only help Liscard

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JBAMDD says...
3:42pm Fri 10 Aug 12

I too think it would do no harm. Like someone else has said, staff are there 24/7 merchandising so what difference would it make to employ a few extra bodies to operate the tills. To the poster that said 'shop workers haver lives too' - come on! They are not being held at gun point and being forced to work nights. These people want the work and shift workers are often paid at a premium for working out of hours. I should imagine that a security guards would have to be employed. I doubt very much that Asda would be expecting their staff to carry out CCTV monitoring and retail security as well as operate tills etc. Security is often there more for the staff rather then stock, especially during the night. I really dont think that it would make that much difference. I don't live on top of Asda so cannot comment on noise levels but Seaview Road is a busy road night or day. I for one would welcome the opening and I know I would make good use of the 24 hour opening. Like another poster said, when having babies, 24 hour opening is invaluable. I made regular use of Tesco 24 hours when I was a shift worker but it is a bit of a treck for me. I would rather give my 24 hour cash to Asda than give it to the overpriced devious rumour plagued petrol stations!

I really hope that it gets the go ahead and doesn't cause too much disturbance for the local residents

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TanyaC says...
11:25am Sun 12 Aug 12

People complain there are no jobs. Then, when the likes of Asda want to open 24 hours they complain. Which would create more jobs and there would be less people in Wallasey on the dole.

There are measures that could be put in place- only use half the car park for one,that would keep the noise down significantly.

I'm sure there are rules about booze being sold between certain times in supermarkets (can't be sold between 10pm and 6am i think) so there won't be any sales of alcohol in that time.

I welcome this move, and I would do if I lived in that area too (I live about a 15 minute walk away)

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Positive thinker says...
12:47pm Sun 12 Aug 12

It doesn't what area someone try's to do something positive,there is always a bunch of brainless people who only see what they want to see

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Positive thinker says...
12:47pm Sun 12 Aug 12

It doesn't what area someone try's to do something positive,there is always a bunch of brainless people who only see what they want to see

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