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Well, there is another aspect of this exercise in corporate vandalism that I don’t think we had anticipated. Light pollution.
If you are driving into rRawtenstall after dark I suggest you pop on a pair of Ray-Ban Aviators and put your rear-view mirror onto anti-dazzle mode. The ‘underground’ car park (that’s street-level to you and me) is illuminated by dozens and dozens of high-intensity strip-lights that are quite painful to the eyes and bathe this lovely Pennine town in an horrific fluorescent glare.
I thought that tough new laws had come out this year against light pollution but I think that Asda-Walmart may have got round this by ensuring that the light radiates downwards and outwards rather than upwards.
Why the heck have they put so many lights in? It really is ridiculous. The lights do not have to be so profuse or intense.
By the way, the store is rubbish. No petrol and the cafe is basic in the extreme. All this money spent for so little end result. We will not be using the store. Although we live locally we will continue to use eaither Tesco or the Asda outlet at Pilsworth which although gigantic, is situated in an area away from a residential area and thus has minimal impact aesthetically.