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Campaign to lower council tax for Tesco neighbours
A Gerrards Cross resident is to start a campaign to help people who live near the Tesco site get their council tax lowered.
Ros Hurn raised the point at a Gerrards Cross parish council meeting on Monday night, and also asked what the supermarket giant is going to do compensate residents and businesses in the village "whose lives have been blighted by the development".
She was told by the council that both of her queries were civil matters and not things that the council could deal with.
Ms Hurn, who does not live adjacent to the site, said: "I really do feel that the people who live close to the development should not have to pay the same amount of council tax as other people.
"Their quality of life has clearly been affected by the project and so I think that the amount they are paying should be reduced. They should have their payments backdated to when development started on the site, because that is when their quality of life began to be reduced."
Ms Hurn was part of a group of residents that opposed the Tesco development in Gerrards Cross, but she left the group last year.
She said: "I do not feel that enough is being done to compensate the people in this village who have suffered at the hands of Tesco, and I had hoped that the parish council would lend their support to them.
"I am determined that people in this village will be given some compensation for the problems that the Tesco development has caused over the years."
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