Business expert Tim Hance
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00:00 If a retailer can move out of town,
00:02 and they are anchor stores,
00:04 'cause that's why they're attracting them out of town,
00:08 into a cheaper box, their costs go down,
00:10 why wouldn't you do that as a retailer?
00:12 But the council should never allow this
00:14 to have planning permission.
00:15 They should never allow,
00:16 they've destroyed their own town centre
00:18 by giving planning permission.
00:19 And it calls me to think they could not control that
00:24 through the planning model,
00:25 because they have shot themselves in the foot.