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Pledge “keepmachspecial”

"I will donate £50 to the Keep Mach Special community group (www.keepmachspecial.org.uk) but only if 20 other people will do the same."

— Mark Bond, Machynlleth (contact)

Deadline to sign up by: la 16-a de Septembro 2009
20 people signed up

Country: United Kingdom
Place: Machynlleth (view map)

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Keep Mach Special are campaigning for a better future for their Welsh Town.
Machynlleth is threatened by a massive Tesco Supermarket planning application -27,000 square feet of retail space in a town of 2100 people.
Machynlleth town centre has a collection of beautiful independent shops. Tesco threaten to destroy these shops with a development that is completely out of proportion to the town.
Keep Mach Special is coordinating the town's attempt to stop Tesco superstore and map a better future for the town. 685 letters of objection have been delivered to the planners, but Tesco have massive resources.
Machynlleth has a reputation as a centre for environmental companies and research, and is in the heart of Wales' only designated UNESCO Biosphere.

Comments on this pledge

• I really don't understand the green ticks, and what we have or have not done!
  John Cantor, 6 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Not sure either John, we will have to ask Charlie!
  
  THanks for your pledge ... we haven't put a link to this on the web site, so do tell anyone you come across!
  Mark Bond, 6 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Each signer can award themselves a green tick to show that they have given their £50 to the campaign.
  
  You can add/remove your green tick at this page:
  http://www.pledgebank.com/my
  Tim, PledgeBank administrator, 6 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Hey Mark! (and the rest of you whose names I don't recognise)
  Machynlleth is not YOUR town. Keep your £50s and your noses OUT of our business!
  How about using your money and campaigning energies to get proper decent healthcare re-instated in our (not your) town.
  Tesco will not make Machynlleth any less special.
  Also, I would welcome any information about how the much vaunted "UNESCO Biosphere" benefits the people of this town in any way at all!
  Idris Jones, 6 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• This Tesco thing is getting out of hand it`s only a shop if all you in comers had been living here 50 years ago i would understand your problem i have been born and bred here and welcome tesco its going to be sited in a good place and at least the smell from the cattle market wont be around every wednesday when are you going to start shouting about the hospital which is very unstable where were you in the public meeting about our local hospital?
  margaret, 6 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Hi Idris, you have strong opinions.
  
  I would really welcome the chance to meet up and talk them through.
  
  We might get on, and you might persuade me.
  
  I'll apply to be a friend on your Facebook site and then we can arrange a place and time? My round.
  Mark Bond, 6 months ago. Abusive? Report it!