IIDINEWS

Pressure groupto target Shell

MEANWHILE IF THE NAnONAL RIVERSAuthority can rule out the possibility ofunderground water contamination, an£8.5m supermarket and petrol station com-prising 3,32lsq m supermarket, 304 sq mcoffee shop, six-island canopy-covered fill-ing station and 58 sq m sales kiosk will"beconstructed in.Crescent Road, Faversham,Kent. In addition, Kent County Councilmust sign a highways agreement beforeapproval of the plans is granted.

KUWAIT PETROLEUM LTD has submitteddetailed plans for a £500,000 Q8 petrol sta-tion also in Brentwood, Essex. The devel-opment will include a shop, car wash, andjet wash as well as four pump islands, if theplans meet with approval.

OUTLINE PLANS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTEDfor a motel and filling station worth £5.3mon the A429 in Cjrencester. Included in thescheme is a 40-bedroom motel, a filling sta-tion with sales building and associated carparking, and landscaping.

(HELVERTON PROPERTIES LTD HASsubmitted outline plans for a £9m super-store and petrol station situated inLlandudno, Gwynedd, on the site offormermud flats, which will form one of three sim-ilar sites planned for the Llandudno area.The development comprises an eight-island petrol filling station and car wash, asupermarket with 380 car parking spaces, apark and ride with space for 378 cars and anextensive flood defence scheme.

FREEMAN STREn, GRIMSBY, is the sitefor a £500,000 petrol filling station on landformerly occupied by a two-storey car park.Detailed plans have been submitted for acanopy-covered three-island filling station·and sales kiosk. In addition, there is pro-posed car parking space for 280 vehicles.

TESCO CONTINUES ITS INEXORABLE marchon what it sees as the UK's prime petrol andsupermarket sites with a planned £10 mil-lion development in Braintree, Essex. Theproposed site will include a petrol stationand class Al supermarket with landscapedparking for 600. Tesco is also spending anestimated £8m on a petrol station andsupermarket in Oxford. Outline plans forthe site include a petrol station, and Alsupermarket featuring a coffee shop. And£IOm is the price of a supermarket andpetrol station in West Road, Bath ifdetailed plans comprising a supermarket,petrol filling station, car parking and ser-vice areas are approved.

TAiN IN THE HIGHLANDS is the proposedsite for Tain Motors' £500k petrol station,showroom and workshop which has justbeen granted outline planning permission.The site features a car showroom, vehicleworkshop, car wash, and a restaurant withparking spaces as well as a filling station.

The Government's strategicpolicy for air quality, AirQuality:Meeting the Challenge,has been welcomed by theUK Petroleum IndustryAssociation.The Government'sstrategy is described by theUKPIA as a positive step inimproving air quality, based onscientifically-derivedair qualitystandards, realistic timescalesand analysis of cost-effective-ness to select the best options.

"The strategy acknowledgesthe reduction in emissions as aresult of action by the oil indus-tries," saidUKPIA directorgen-eralDavidParker. "The UKPIAwelcomes the emphasis on bal-ancing longer-term measureswith short-term proposals."

'response letter, explainingDonMarketing's current legalposition and elaborating onits allegations against Shell.

The letter is intended fordealers who have replied to thequestionnaire, and a copy hasbeen sent to Shell which,according to Mr Donovan, has"until midday [onJanuary 26]to comment on its accuracy".

It states that forecourt staffcould "identify the hiddenprizes on a large proportion ofthe [Nintendo] game leaflets",and that although this had beenpointed out to Shellpromotionsmanager Andrew Lazenbywho "accepted the game wasopen to abuse", the promotioncontinued. The letter describesthe Make Money promotion as"seriously flawed".

Commenting on the letter,a Shell spokesman said it wasone of many and that Shell"didn't intend to comment onevery single letter from MrDonovan".

"A legalprocess has been ini-tiated in which Shell is partic-ipating and the companyintends to see the actionthrough court," he said.

The dispute continues.

Clean airstrategywelcomed

Don Marketing's managing direc-tar, John Donovan

according to John Donovan. Inthe questionnaire dealers wereasked to state whether theyknew that Make Money andother promotions " ...wereflawed" and whether theywould have continued to runthe promotions if they hadbeen made aware of the fact.

"We confirmed to dealers,licensees and other operators,that information would be con-fidential and the response wasvery interesting," said MrDonovan.

The company and its legaladvisors have also prepared a

The protracted legalwranglingsbetween promotions specialistDon Marketing and Shell(UK) have prompted AlfredDonovan, father of DonMarketing's managing director,John Donovan, to form theShell Corporate ConsciencePressure Group, dedicated tochanging Shell's "lack ofinterest in settling disputesamicably" and the way inwhichthe company controls the flowof information to the people itworks with.

The move is an attempt tobring together other interestedparris, such as shareholders anddealers, who are "unhappy atthe ethical conduct" of thecompany.

The group claims that italready has "a dozen individu-als and companies owningshares in Shell" as members,and that "many [more] are alsounhappy". Mr Donovan seniorsaid that he felt compelled toset up the pressure group afterhis son found it necessary toissue High Court writs to Shell.

Meanwhile, response to DonMarketing's advertisement andquestionnaire (see Januaryissue) has been encouraging,

The Fuel!! Division ofWCF Ltd has just taken delivery ofthe first offour 26,000-litre tankers provided on contracthire by Ryder pIc. The vehicle, an ERF ECI 0 8x4 rigid, isto be maintained by Ryder under an eight-year contracthire agreement;'It will be based at WCF Fuel Division'sdepot at Ayr, Strathclyde.

The three other tankers will operate from bases inEdinburgh, and Carnforth, Lancashire. All four will beused to deliver petrol and diesel to filling stations through-out Scotland and the north of England.

"Ryder showed professionalism and a qualityapproach," said WCF Fuel Division general managerRobert Gill. "The company provides first class mainte-nance and support with the flexibility to meet our needs.We're confident that we have all the back-up we need."