AFTER the grand announcement of the mammoth redevelopment around West Way comes, all too predictably, the worry and uncertainty as details of the scheme emerge.

Doric Properties certainly should be praised for its vision of a redevelopment of this western gateway to the city.

But it cannot be anything other than a massive problem for the current tenants, some of whom are small independent traders. If they are forced to move out or carry on while building work on such a large scale goes on, of course it is going to hit their viability.

We would imagine that, like so many other firms, just surviving each month is somewhat of a triumph for some in the current climate. Being expected to move out of their current premises will almost certainly be a death knell for some.

Doric needs to work to minimise this because it would be a terrible legacy of the project if it was built on the ruins of the current businesses.