Having just gone to the store and realized what was happening, I have to agree with the comments on the situation being ludicrous. Tesco may be the high street bully but the numbers going to the store surely indicate that it's a welcome bully? For me as a Coeliac, I can purchase more and better gluten-free products at the store than anywhere else in town.

As an aside, I've just got used to how the store was laid out and now I have to learn it all again. It seems crazy since all the other Tesco stores that I've visited while living in different areas of the country have been allowed to GROW, not SHRINK!

Surely Stockport Council would do better if they just accepted that the store was larger than initially planned, fine Tesco for the contravention of planning permission and then accept the greater levels of business rates that the larger store would presumably generate?

   I find it ridiculous that the council have wasted tax payers money in pursuing this matter.

From the number of shoppers that use the store it seems that Stockport residents want the store.

Before Tesco there was not a single decent supermarket in town.

The derelict bombsite that was there previously was complete waste of land and a poor welcome to Stockport west to anyone leaving the M60.

It seems to me to be a clash of egos between the planning officials employed by the council and those architects employed by Tesco.

Lets remember the council have wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds let alone man hours pursuing the doomed Ikea development. Why were the council so certain that they could overturn the decision of the Deputy Prime Minister?

Who would benefit from Ikea? I'm no expert but I'm sure shoppers return to supermarkets than furniture stores. In that case the M60 would be further clogged with more traffic from shoppers all over Gtr Manchester, North Staffordshire, Cheshire and the East Midlands.

To refer to Tesco as bullies is to completely misunderstand what is happening here.

If Tesco would like to build another store in the borough I'm sure they would find their application refused or life made "difficult." Therefore, who is the bully?

what about a poll of residents affected by Tesco? I'm one. I'd like to have my say in what the council continues to waste its money on.

   Stockport Council should have taken the ultimate sanction and forced Tesco to knock the building down. Whilst they have brought jobs to the area, the arrogant way in which Tesco acted by overbuilding the store should be punished. After all, Stockport has plenty supermarkest serving the area as it is and I am sure Miss Boycott is utilising an alternate store. I have heard that Tesco sell cheaper fruit and veg at their Extra stores. If it goes off too quick, buy less more often.

   How petty the world is becoming, here we have a company willing to invest in a run down area of the town and all we can do is complain. The council must remember that it is the council tax payers that they are working for, yes the actual people whom are employed and served by Tescob^TMs. Why build a wall, keep the area as shop floor space b" thus employing and serving more Stockport residents, and to Miss Boycott if you do not like the service vote with your feet and go elsewhere.

   perhaps if they knocked the store down and rebuilt it they could make a fresh start and sell fresh fruit and veg to the public. The fruit and veg that I buy go off the next day, Im sure they [Tesco] get sent all the leftovers from the more 'upmarket' stores from handforth dean so they can sell it on cheaply to stockport residents.

   What a ludicrous idea! A "false" wall would be the most ridiculous waste of space not including the wasteland that the tesco in stockport is built on! Not to mention the time and effort that has gone into building the store. Why don't the idiots who seem to think this would be an amazingly good idea go back home to brinnington.