Sainsbury supermarket to open at Wards Corner, will this affect the demolition applciation

I have read in the local newspaper that a new Sainsbury supermarket is to open on the Wards Corner site in West Green Road, N15. Personally I am in two minds as to whether it is good or bad.

On one hand the council wants to destroy all the old Victorian and Edwardian buildings just so it can have a pre-recession model shopping mall with lots of chain stores as it believes in 1960's planning for Tottenham i.e. knock it down and build some concrete high rise to regenerate the area into Croydon and use council tax subsidies to do it.  Chain stores buy into that model of thinking.

On the other hand it means the site has now reached all the planning departments goals in that TfL are improving the public realm, the fear of crime is going as all the bright new lighting makes the tube feel more welcoming and now the first chain store on site is due to arrive so the site has started to regenerated and it didn't cost anyone anything as those campaigners have always said. So maybe we get to keep all those jobs, little shops, the market and the subsidy money.

I don't pity all those councillors who supported the developer giving them 1.5 million of tax payer money whilst sacking teachers and now have to vote for demolition in order to final part with that money and for what?

The chain store they always wanted, when all a long they could have kept all that money to help the local schools. Still maybe the planning committee will stop the demolition stone dead now. Well it would be bad for the party career as how do you look your colleagues in face when sacking their kid’s teachers whilst letting a developer with billions have the school cash. Makes bankers look like nicer people.