Local residence and traders combined to make a very strong campaign against tesco opening on Mill Road. There were many demonstrations, one big public meeting was held in st. philips Church on Mill Road which was the only local building that could hold so many people against the campaign. There was about 5000 people who signed the petition. Sadly tesco opened on Mill Road but fortunately for those against tesco they were not given permission for an extension on the back and to sell alcohol. Tesco are appealing again about the alcohol licence at the moment trying to get one. My dad was involved in the campaign and said tesco has over 50% of the supermarket sales in Cambridge and thinks that there should be some legal reason against this type of monopoly.

At the time i didn't take much interest in the campaign but after Tom Woodcock talked to us about it i am against it because Mill Road is such a multicultural road and big national stores spoil the individuality of the road.

One of the arguments against tesco was the difficulty of loading and unloading with no legal premition to do this on Mill Road, they had orriginaly argued that they would never send there vehicals down the narrow one way side roads but when tesco were not given premition to load on Mill Road they changed their minds and have since been sending their lorries through the dangerous residential back roads.