Supermarkets are looking to smaller towns for their expansion, but finding locations acceptable to the public can be a problem, as the developer A+R has found out in Starý Plzenec. The investor wants to build a Penny Market in the town and has received permission from the town council to build an entrance road to the site, but local opposition has emerged. “The planned supermarket won’t add to the beauty of our town,” said town assembly member Dušan Kopřiva, who complained that the project required trees to be felled and for the levelling of a bowling and cultural center on the site. In another town, Nepomuk, the town council and its construction office have rejected a plan for the construction of a Norma supermarket, on the grounds that it was too close to a cemetery and would block the view of the town’s church. “It’s not appropriate even from an ethical standpoint,“ Nepomuk’s mayor Jiří Švec told the daily Klatovský daily.
