Letter: Asda Compensation Offer to Bramley Completely Inadequate

Published on: 31 Aug, 2024
Updated on: 31 Aug, 2024

From H Melia

member of Bramley Residents’ Action Group

In response to: Residents Frustrated over Poor Progress on Petrol Leak Recovery – MP to Meet Asda Boss

So Asda deny having made an offer to residents yet are “awaiting feedback on the community scheme”.

Just to be clear, Asda’s offer (or as Asda sometimes prefer to call it “community scheme”) was a £50,000 pot for the Bramley community and a £25 voucher for each household to spend in the Bramley Asda petrol station shop.

It is far too low a sum for the lack of usable water, putting up with broken telephones and internet that can’t be fixed until 2025 at the earliest, danger of underground explosion in the Openreach infrastructure, nasty petrol fumes in the air and in cellars in the village, petrol under the village, in the village stream (killing the wildlife), in the tap water, and all the consequential roadworks, road closures, pavement closures, temp traffic lights, traffic queues, fumes, damaging effect on local businesses, inconvenience, losses, additional expenses experienced to different degrees by everyone in Bramley over the last nearly two years.

To context the “offer” – £50,000 wouldn’t even cover the costs needed to upgrade the Eastwood Road children’s playground.