.IcelandFoods scraps plan to open a new store in Londonderry after planning process delays
The supermarket chain currently has three stores in Londonderry and one a short distance away in Strabane, County Tyrone
Mr Walker told the programme on Friday evening that "less bureaucracy and getting government out of the way" in local planning would allow the private sector to get on with job creation. The council said that while Iceland has no individual planning applications with the council, the company is understood to be involved in a full application, alongside another retailer.A spokesperson for the council said the major retail application was "a complex proposal" and one with "a number of issues the council had to take into consideration as part of an application of this scale".
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