TESCO’s plans to close one of its Oxford supermarkets’ doors for 30 weeks are continuing to anger residents, who are worried about where they will turn to for essentials instead.
The Tesco Metro on Cowley Road is due to close this spring at some point so the shop can be ‘reconfigured’ and that extra floors can be built above containing 137 student flats.
Now, a local councillor, Craig Simmons, has written to Tesco trying to ask them if there are alternatives to closing the shop while work goes ahead.
Mr Simmons, a Green councillor for St Mary’s Ward, said: “The way the building work is being done makes it very difficult to social distance on the Cowley Road.”