GIVE them an inch and they will take a yard whoever coined this phrase perhaps had supermarket giant Tesco in mind (Anger Over Store Plan, News Shopper, April 19).

Not satisfied with pushing its existing and greedy plans through a weak and timid council planning committee, it has now come back for a second helping.

The application to nearly double the size of its proposed new store in Orpington High Street beggars belief.

It seems Tesco, which corners the retail market with a 30 per cent share of all sales, has now reached the point where it is blind to its own arrogance.

We are very fortunate indeed to have people such as Roger Lawson, chairman of the action group, to fight the public's corner.

Mr Lawson and the group is making an effort to stop Tesco steamrolling its audacious demands through the council again.

However, perhaps this situation creates an ideal opportunity to give the bully a bloody nose?

If Tesco would like the original planning permission revised, then why not? But not in a way Tesco had envisaged.

Let the council show some backbone when reviewing the planning permission it so weakly gave by now refusing it altogether.

Let the councillors actually represent the views of the people who voted them to power.

However, with the local elections shortly taking place, the public may now decide the existing councillors are no longer worthy of the trust they were previously given.

DEREK DOBSON
Chislehurst