REF 'Tesco bid rejected' (Times, August 8): Such bad news for Okehampton again.

You, like me, will still have to struggle through the town centre due to the fact that three supermarkets were allowed to be located within 200 yards of each other with only one main road in and out of the town centre, causing long tailbacks in every direction at peak times, plus our large primary school in the same area — yes, it's great news for Okehampton.

I must admit that after you have been stuck in traffic for a long time the last thing you need is to shop in the traffic smoke-filled streets of Okehampton, especially when you know you have to queue to get out again.

Wake up, please, and put in the link road that this town so desperately needs and which should have been put in before these supermarkets were allowed to be built here.

Also, maybe the town councillors, West Devon Borough Council and the planning officers could contact Tesco on my behalf and the many hundreds of other people in this town that did support Tesco and ask them to consider a Tesco Metro on the new site in Crediton Road, adjacent to Chichacott, where planners are talking of a shop being placed.

R P Evans

Prospect Hill

Okehampton

THANK goodness wisdom has prevailed and West Devon Borough Council has said no to another store.

Alas, however, we have lost our one and only shoe shop in Okehampton.  When I came here  25 years ago there were three — two in the Arcade and one in East Street.

Edith Matthews

Inwardleigh