Council to vote on Tesco and Broadmarsh schemes
Two of Nottingham’s biggest planning applications for years are set to go before Nottingham City Council's development control committee on 25 May. A new Tesco store on the Island Road site, which is recommended for refusal, and the £500m extension of the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre, will go before the panel. The Broadmarsh extension, which would nearly triple the shopping centre, would create about 5,000 jobs, said a report to councillors.
The council said a report has recommended that plans for a new Tesco store on the proposed Island site off London Road are rejected as they are "inconsistent with the approved Island Site Masterplan".
The council said its sees the Island site as more of a “mix of office, residential, and retail development evenly spread throughout the area”. It added that separate blocks of new development would be segregated by open walkways.
The Tesco application would result in a single solid block being developed to the north of the site and would place all of the retail in one location - one of the reasons, says the council, why the application is recommended for refusal.
Meanwhile, Westfield's outline planning application for the extenstion of the Broadmarsh will be heard at the same meeting.
The £500m proposal to redevelop the Broadmarsh almost triple the size of the shopping centre from 400,000 sq ft to 1.1 million sq ft creating around 5,000 permanent jobs.
The shopping centre would be extended to the south of Canal Street and developed as a series of "city blocks" separating different shopping activities and surrounded by pedestrian routes largely open to the weather.
The Broadmarsh car park and bus station would be demolished and moved to an area west of Cliff Road.
Buildings west of Carrington Street and north of Canal Street would be cleared. A new pedestrian route would be created in a direct line from Trent Street, next to Nottingham City Council's Loxley House headquarters, to Nottingham Contemporary. The area beneath the elevated tram system would be filled in with shops and offices.
A newly created public transport interchange would allow pedestrians to reach the shopping centre from the new tram stop and the relocated bus station.
The development would include a new Castle Square adjacent to Maid Marian Way which will have views of the Castle and a new Carrington Square north of the junction of Carrington Street and Canal Street.
If approved, as is recommended, work on the new centre could be complete by 2015.
