Selby - Town Centre Plans!

PUBLIC CONSULTATION TO BE HELD ON EXCITING NEW PLANS FOR SELBY!

28 February 2005

Exciting new plans for a multi million pound regeneration scheme in Selby Town Centre will be unveiled next week at a two day public consultation.

Dransfield Properties – the company behind the successful Three Lakes Retail Park on Bawtry Road – are proposing the ambitious scheme to regenerate the heart of Selby town centre.

And the proposals will be on view at the two day event which is being held in the vacant shop unit next to Selles in the Market Cross Shopping Centre in the town.

The consultation sessions will be held on Wednesday March 9th from 12.30pm to 6pm and on Thursday March 10th from 12 pm to 7pm.

The plans include:

· Relocating Selby Abbey Primary School to a new state of the art building
· Extending and modernising the Morrisons superstore to offer a wider range of goods
· Remodeling and improving the Market Cross Shopping Centre.

Dransfield Properties announced last month that the company had bought Market Cross Shopping Centre which is situated between Market Place and the William Morrisons fodstore and comprises of 22 retail units extending to 48,000 sq ft.

The centre is anchored by Argos, other retailers include Thomas Cook, Rosebys, Greggs and Yorkshire Bank.

The company is keen for as many people as possible to attend next week’s public exhibition and it’s hoped that staff and pupils at Selby Abbey Primary will visit to view a model of the proposed new school.

The school would be relocated a few hundred metres south to a new site fronting Portholme Road.

Meetings have already been held in recent weeks and months with staff and governors at Selby Abbey Primary School about the plans for the new school and the style and layout of the building.

 Mark Dransfield, Managing Director of Dransfield Properties Ltd said: “We know there is already a great deal of interest in the plans we have for Selby Town Centre and we are delighted to be in a position to go to public consultation on the plans.

“We hope that everyone in the town who is interested in the plans will come along and see what the company is proposing and give us their views.”

In October 2003 Dransfield Properties won the RICS Pro Yorkshire Award for Regeneration for a £24 million retail and leisure development at Mount Pleasant in Hull which involved the relocation of Craven Primary School as well as a number of local businesses.

For further information about Dransfield log on to the company’s website at www.dransfield.co.uk

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Time:   12pm
Date:    Wednesday 9th March
Place:   Market Cross Shopping Centre
Event:   Start of Public Consultation of Selby Town Centre Regeneration Scheme

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

    Amanda Holmes, Public Relations –
    Dransfield Properties Ltd
    Tel: 01226 360644 or 07971 854733

EDITORS NOTES

1/Dransfield Properties Ltd are based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire and are one of the leading specialist retail developers in the country specialising in projects of urban regeneration.

2/Dransfield Properties was awarded the BCSC award for working with the community two years ago and for two years running was awarded the RICS Pro Yorkshire Award for Regeneration in 2002 and 2003.

3/The company delivered the Three Lakes Retail Park in Selby which was opened by John Grogan MP in March 2004. Work is due to start on phase two of the development later this year delivering a new JJB Health and Fitness Centre with a first floor store and one further retail unit.

For further information, contact:

Public Relations Department, Dransfield Properties Ltd
Tel: 01226 360644
Email: pr@dransfield.co.uk