THE ruling on which supermarket will be given the go-ahead in Stroud should finally be made on Tuesday.

Stroud District Council’s development control committee will be holding a crunch meeting on April 14 to decide the fate of three new supermarkets currently hoping to open in the town.

The applications date from 2013, when plans for an ASDA store in Lightpill, a Morrisons in Dudbridge Road, and another store at Ryeford were submitted.

The ASDA scheme on the Daniels Industrial Estate at Bath Road, Lightpill, was recommended for approval in July 2014, but the decision was delayed, once for late submission of information, and a second time for investigations into proposals for the in-town development of the triangle of land between Union Street and the Cornhill.

Setminds, owners of the Cornhill shopping centre and the Market Tavern site, had confirmed “the clear intent of Marks and Spencer to come to Stroud”.

But the company argued that the application for the Daniels site was likely “to be fatal to M&S coming to Stroud and put in doubt the future viability of Stroud town centre”.

The ASDA application has also gone to appeal for non-determination, as has Property Alliance Group’s proposals for Brunsdons Yard at Ryeford.

The application for the Lightpill site involves demolition of all existing buildings, and replacement with a retail store of 5,356 square metres, with car parking, a petrol station and recycling area, and new access.

The Dudbridge Road site application, submitted by current landowners Avocet Industrial Estates and just a stone’s throw from Sainsbury’s, involves demolition of existing buildings, except for a roadside office building and attached building to the rear, and the erection of a new retail foodstore and café of 5,402 sq m with car parking and new access.

The plans for a brownfield site near the Ryeford junction on the Ebley by-pass involve demolition of existing buildings and the erection of a new retail foodstore of 6,050 sq m with car parking and new access.