More cars, congestion, duplication of supermarket ranges, closure of small independent businesses and another town that looks like every other that contains a Tesco-shaped blot on the landscape is hardly great for Stirchley.

I suspect BCC isn’t actually bothered about actual regeneration. How many times have we heard of Tesco paying for fire stations and leisure centres to be moved and rebuilt elsewhere in order to make way for a new hypermarket. The less the council has to pay for so called regeneration, the better it looks for the councillors. Hogwash if you ask me, it’s all about scratching each others’ backs with brown envelopes choc full of banknotes (allegedly).