Planning Decision Due on Morpeth’s Low Stanners Supermarket Scheme!

Planning Decision Due on Morpeth’s Low Stanners Supermarket Scheme!

5 July 2011

Planners are to meet later this week to consider the application for a brand new supermarket in Morpeth on land adjacent to the town centre – keeping retail activity in the heart of the town.

The North Area Planning Committee meets on Thursday (July 7^th) to consider the scheme and if councillors approve the development for the Low Stanners site, work could start as early as this Autumn on delivering the town’s new foodstore.

Outline plans were approved just over a year ago and since then Yorkshire based Dransfield Properties has been working with the Environment Agency as well as other stakeholder groups and consultees to deliver a high quality scheme for the town.

The development will transform the former council depot at Staithes Lane with a new 50,000 sq ft foodstore  and attractive landscaping scheme creating good links with the town centre. Around 290 new jobs will be created in the town.

A lower level long stay car park for 283 cars will be built as part of the development as well as a store level short stay town centre car park with 296 spaces - encouraging shoppers to visit the rest of the town centre when they shop at the new store.

Two businesses are being relocated by the company from the development site. Family run garage T Thompson and Sons is moving to new larger premises in a former car showroom and workshop on Coopies Lane in Morpeth – enabling the company to expand.

And the town’s oldest veterinary practice, Robson and Prescott, also currently based at Staithes Lane, are on the move to bigger and better premises.

The plans for the new Veterinary Centre at the former Salt Depot at Whorral Bank will be considered by planners next week along with the supermarket plans. The new surgery will allow the practice, which employs around 50 people, to grow and have a separate area for equine and farm animals.

Both applications have been recommended for approval by the North Area Planning Committee when they meet in Alnwick on Thursday evening.

Retail Property Director at Dransfield Properties, Andrew Malley, said: “This is an important development for the town centre. Making sure we get this right and come forward with a scheme from which the town can benefit and be proud of has been our priority.

“We have worked with residents and local stakeholder groups to bring forward a development which not only links in well with the town centre but is an attractive well designed building which will stand the test of time.

“Morpeth is a beautiful market town which has a diverse and vibrant town centre and we want to ensure that we build on that and continue to be part of the town’s success with this development.”

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For further information, contact:

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