Tesco redevelopment of car park recommended
A £20 million supermarket plan for a Westcountry town is being recommended for approval.
The fate of the controversial Tesco superstore scheme in Brixham, which has split the port, will be decided by Torbay's planning committee. And officers are saying the redevelopment should go ahead after years in the making, with certain conditions attached.
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Revisions have been included in the latest plans after concerns were expressed over access. The mixed-use scheme would see a multi-level car park with 340 spaces, a 32,000 sq ft Tesco supermarket and additional retail space, small unit shops, 11 town houses, three flats, a Shopmobility unit and public space. New lorry and bus access plans which were recently shown at a Brixham Town Council meeting in January and led to the council rejecting the project on access grounds, have been revised.
In her report, planning officer Ruth Robinson said Brixham had "long under-performed as a shopping destination" and needed to face up to "major challenges" including the rise of internet shopping and competition from out-of- town retail developments.
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She said it was an expensive site to develop "due to the need to remediate the contaminated land, to mitigate flood risks and to cloak the building to create active street frontages".
4 Comments
by abcxyz
Wednesday, March 06 2013, 7:01AM
“On a social media site yesterday Mike Morey complained about the planning meeting not being held in Brixham. Does he think we were all born yesterday? We all know the reason he wanted the meeting in Brixham was to fill it up with BRATS in the hope that their presence will intimidate the Torbay Councillors as it did the Brixham ones.
Everybody in Brixham knows how he and Jackie Stockman will vote anyway. A very strong clue can be seen in Mike Morey's ironic use of the exclamation mark in his tongue in cheek comment 'Yes, decision making must be purely on planning merit!' that he put on the same social media page.
Yes Mike, the Torbay public firmly believe in the admirable principles of the planning process in this country and do not like to see them taken lightly. We shall be watching you and your town council colleague very closely.”
by JasonDC
Monday, March 04 2013, 11:12AM
“About time. Let's hope the plans get passed and the development starts ASAP.”
by nocoment
Saturday, March 02 2013, 7:36PM
“dave tims hasnt got a buisiness”
by dave_tims
Saturday, March 02 2013, 3:12PM
“Drum roll for the moaners.. I do hope Tescos is reading them and banning them from walking into there new supermarket...IDIOTS”