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Published:
August 1, 2008
Exclusive:
Plans for £4m garden centre expansion are registered
A
huge £4million
expansion of a garden centre near Burnham-On-Sea has taken a step
forward this week with the planning application being formally
registered.
 Burnham-On-Sea.com
broke the news in
March that Sanders Garden World at Brent Knoll wanted to extend
its premises by 35,000 square feet and introduce a new roundabout
on the A38 outside the store.
Now,
a formal planning application has been registered by the store's
owners, Wyevale Garden Centres, which will be reviewed by Sedgemoor
District Council's planning team over the next few weeks.
Local
residents have until August 26th to give their feedback on the
scheme and a formal consulatation period by Sedgemoor planners
began on Wednesday (July 30th).
If
approved, Wyevale told Burnham-On-Sea.com earlier this year that
the extension could generate over 100 new jobs.
Store
manager Peter Burks, pictured above, added that if the scheme
gets the go-ahead, construction could begin as soon as November
2008 and the extension would be completed during the summer of
2009.
Mr
Burks says he believes the extended store would have no impact
on the trade of Burnham shops. "I really don't think it should
make any difference to businesses in Burnham at all," he
told Burnham-On-Sea.com. "Our initial planning application
limited the number and type of products we could sell to reduce
competition with shops in Burnham, and we have no intention of
changing this."
Wyevale
plans to increase the size of the store's covered building to
63,000 square feet and to leave the remainder of the outdoor sales
area in its existing state.
The
proposal would also see the number of car parking spaces rise
from 369 spaces to 411, and a new roundabout introduced on the
A38.
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