Sainsbury will be visiting Oakham Town Council for a private meeting with members to talk to members regarding the possibility of a Sainsbury Supermarket to the North of Oakham.
At 7.00pm A Meeting of Oakham Town Council Planning and General Purposes Committee Starts at 7.00pm public welcome.
Amongst other planning application to consider Tesco Planning Application will be considered.
On Wednesday 26th May 2010 at 7pm Oakham Town Council will be considering the demolition of 39 Penn Street Oakham.
Oakham Town Council will also be considering an application from Tesco Stores Ltd to extend the existing A1 store. 96 South Street Oakham, along with the creation of additional car parking together with ancillary highway and landscape work.
The current store opened 2001
Tesco’s existing store extends some 31,011 sqft and has a gross internal area, including a planning net sales area squared of (16,630 sqft) The store mainly stocks convenience goods, with only 10% of the net sales area 1658 sqft devoted to comparison goods.
Part of Penn Street to be demolished
A small water course runs around part of the boundary of the site, with houses beyond. The gardens of these properties were for many years subjected to flooding caused by poor drainage of surface water from the existing car park,
Proposed Cycle/Pedestrian Access from Penn Street
A retail Supermarket was first proposed on the site in May 1998 but this was refused on the grounds of adverse impacts on residential amenity from traffic generated by development.
The existing store was eventually granted outline planning permission at the appeal February 1999.
Tesco have been trading in Oakham for over 8 years.
Tesco say the store is cramped, dated and does not provide customers with the shopping environment that they want, along with insufficient parking availability.
Tesco Recycling to move
They wish to increase the size of the store to increase sales and storage.
Provide a new in-store café and add an additional 164 parking spaces and relocate the recycle centre. Increased cycle parking and they propose a pedestrian link through Penn Street, This would mean the house would be demolished.
If the proposal is accepted all the above will become a car park
Tesco promise free parking for customer and visitors to the town.
Some local shops and homes display notices
After looking through the hundreds of pages of documents provided by Tesco I was pleased to see I am not the only person to make mistakes :-)
G L Hearn Design and Access Statement page 10 2.29 A application is currently being considered by Rutland Distinct Council.
