DAVID Little, one of the few councillors who listens to his constituents, is right to be worried about the proposed construction of a supermarket on the Bond Worth site (Fear for town's traders, Shuttle/Times & News, July 6).

Stourport has Tesco, Lidl and the Co-op for a "big store" shop. It has Spar (Lickhill Road), R Daily (Walshes), Bewdley Road Stores and a brand new Londis on Areley Common for local needs.

Supermarkets, by their very nature, are predators. The local "spend" stays roughly the same so extra turnover has to come from shutting down small shops.

If you want to see the High Street with even more charity shops, then support Tesco in their effort to build a new out-of-town-centre store.

Two myths we can do without, are:

1 Tesco "creates 250 jobs" - bigger stores COST jobs in the long run.

2 Mr Clee's "consultation" - Stourport people are not fooled by this piffle. A few years ago the public consultation period for moving the main Post Office into the Co-op was supposed to end on October19 but the new Co-op Post Office was built in August. We were also promised consultation about Kidderminster Hospital.

What Stourport needs on the Bond Worth site is a prestige, environmentally sound development of mixed size homes (with no adjacent supermarket), with adequate access via Discovery Road, overlooking a beautiful man-made lake caused by the excavation of the old Power Station watermeadow and a partial constriction of the flow of the River Stour.

D TAYLOR

Redstone Lane

Stourport