I HOPE that sense will prevail this week and Tesco will finally be refused permission to build a Tesco Express at the former Friar pub site in Marston, Oxford.

Marston hardly needs another food store, as there are two Co-op outlets and a CostCutter store within a short distance.

Tesco says that there will be nine parking spaces provided but that is not enough for customers, and where will the staff park? Also, what would happen during delivery times?

Cars will also have to reverse on to the path to get out. Marston is already one huge car park for commuters. There are very few legitimate parking spaces, so customers would park anywhere and everywhere.

Vehicular movement is chaotic at certain times of the day. I note that many of the people who want this store do not even live in Marston, so do not appreciate the problems first-hand.

Just like the other Tesco application, at the Fox and Hounds in Abingdon Road, this plan threatens a post office.

If these plans are allowed, then trading by the existing shops will be suppressed. Market forces will put pressure on convenience shops to keep their prices as low as possible, not just Tesco.

If Tesco, to satisfy their shareholders, really do need to buy up properties which then become derelict sites (consequently tempting planners to succumb), they would do better to revitalise and tidy up dying public houses and provide a much more needed alternative.

In protest at their practices, I stopped purchasing from Tesco stores long ago and trust that everyone else who objects does the same.

AJ GREENFIELD, Raymund Road, Old Marston, Oxford