Research for the BBC’s Panorama programme will tonight (Wednesday) reveal that at least 577 plans for UK supermarkets were approved in the past two years.
Planning authorities, said the research, gave Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons permission for at least 480 stores in England in the two years to 1 November.
Campaigners say the stores are putting independent traders out of business.
In Scotland, at least 67 stores were approved: 22 in Wales and at least eight in Northern Ireland, researchers found.
In order to gauge the rate of expansion of the major supermarkets, the BBC contacted planning authorities across the UK to find out how many new stores had been approved between 1 November 2008 and 1 November 2010.
Not all councils responded, but out of those that did Tesco proved to have had the most successful applications with at least 392 stores (large stores and smaller convenience shops) approved, followed by Sainsbury’s at 111, Morrisons with 41 and Asda at 33.
In England, London had the highest number of proposed new supermarkets with 110, followed by the north-west of England with 63.
A BBC Panorama special programme called Supermarkets: What price cheap food? will be broadcast on BBC One at 9pm tonight (Wednesday) and will also investigate the growth of supermarkets.
Source: BBC
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