A top retail expert has quit a council body seeking to boost city centre fortunes after councillors approved a new out-of-town retail park, including an Asda superstore.
Professor Leigh Sparks resigned from Stirling Council’s City Centre Working Group last week saying traders should feel “mightily let down” by the majority decision by the authority’s planning panel.
He later wrote a scathing online blog, criticising the four councillors on the six-member panel who had backed the development at Crookbridge despite a recommendation of refusal from planning officials.
