A SUPERMARKET to be built in Bovey Tracey is back on the agenda after a public meeting in the town hall on Tuesday heard it was probably the only way the town could get a much-needed replacement primary school.

It comes more than two years after residents and traders vented their opposition at public and council meetings to any ideas of a supermarket, after learning that the town council had received overtures from a supermarket chain agent.

Funding from Devon County Council was out and there was no hope of raising the cash for a school, which would cost several million pounds, unless half the five acres of town council owned land off Le Molay Littry Way is sold to a large supermarket chain.