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Representation ID: 1763

Received: 01/12/2014

Respondent: ALDI Stores Ltd

Agent: Planning Potential Ltd

The creation of a physical retail destination can introduce a number of benefits, including enhancing retail choice, stimulating competition, creating employment opportunities, and generating spin-off trade through stimulating linked trips and increased footfall, in some cases facilitating other development nearby.
Essentially, we would encourage a more representative charging schedule which fully acknowledges the different types and format of convenience retail development. We would suggest that this subsequently leads to fairer representation for unique formats such as LADs in a revised charging schedule. Practically, the most effective method of differentiation would be to use an additional floorspace threshold, above and below which charge rates vary.