Yahoo News New Lincolnshire Co-op in Immingham given green light
Plans for a new Lincolnshire Co-op at Immingham have been approved.
It will be located off Stallingborough Road, south of Immingham town centre, right next to a site access road for the £105m 525-home development from Beal Homes. The store is expected to employ fourteen full-time staff.
The convenience store will be single storey, with a 280sq m public sales area, and 95sq m back of house area. The matter was brought to North East Lincolnshire Council's planning committee as it was a departure from the Local Plan, because the site is allocated for housing.
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"It's considered that this proposal will actually complement that housing there," said a planning officer, later adding of its design: "It sits within that housing scheme very nicely."
Lincolnshire Co-op's store development manager Matthew Wilkinson said the convenience store had been developed from the inception of the wider 525-home plan. "We have been around for 160 years serving the communities of Lincolnshire and we want to be able to open a new convenience store," he said, adding it has existing stores in the area including in Barnetby-le-Wold, Keelby and Scartho. The Scartho store only opened last month.
"Certainly, the thing that swung it for me as a Scartho Ward councillor, is the opening of the store that Matthew alluded to, on Waltham Road," said Cllr Ian Lindley. He did have initial reservations, but it "really does fit in well".
"Having seen the finished product on Waltham Road, I'm certainly happy to support that," he said, adding regular feedback for proposed large housing estates was a lack of amenities like this. "One of the big things for me is it will hopefully reduce the number of car journeys made," said Cllr Paul Bright.
"It's going to fit here absolutely hand in glove," said Cllr Matt Patrick, who echoed the point on public concern when proposed housing estates did not have amenities.
He also read out the one objection to the store, from an Oban Court resident, who said: "I don't want a shop... I don't want the houses. But why bother even doing this? You do as you wish. With zero regard for what ever we say or want anyway. You absolutely disgust me."
The store was approved unanimously.
