Whether there is another Pharmacy down the road is completely and utterly irrelevant to planning consideration. If there was a town plan that prescribed the make up and number of outlets then that might be differrent, but I don't think there is.
However, the determination date is 7th December, because of the amount of objections the matter will have to go to committee. I have been waiting since 21 July for a matter I am involved with to get to committee, so it will be interesting to see which christmas this one gets done by!!
