THUMBS-UP FOR NEW SUPERMARKET NEAR DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES HOSPITAL - BUT WILL IT LEAD TO WAR OF THE STORES?

How Hodson Architects envisage the store might look

A NEW convenience store is on the cards for Scartho.

North East Lincolnshire Council planners have given the green light for it - and three other commercial units - to be built on land off Forsythia Drive, south of Diana, Princess of Hospital.

Customers of the store are likely to include staff at the hospital, its visitors and nearby residents.

It should also benefit from further housing that has been earmarked for adjacent land.

Architects for the project are Hodson, of Yarra Road, Cleethorpes.

Says the firm: "The site can be appropriately developed to respect and be influenced by the character of Scartho. 

"The proposal is designed to be part of the same ‘family’ of buildings as already approved residential applications, particularly given the materials chosen. 

"It is hoped that the retail development will contribute to the success of quality, contemporary housing built on the sites nearby."

The application was unsuccessfully opposed by a nearby landowner, the Brocklesby Estate, which is building a new residential village on Matthew Telford Way at nearby Scartho Top.

This will also accommodate a convenience store, and Brocklesby fear that there will be insufficient trade to support both.

It is concerned that retailers who have expressed interest to coming to Scartho Top might now pull out, jeopardising its proposed village.