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Detailed designs in for job-creating garden centre
Proposals for a new flagship Dobbies garden centre near Tewkesbury have moved closer with the submission of the detailed designs.The new 75,000 sq ft garden centre with parking for 754 cars will be the largest Dobbies in the South West and the company’s fourth largest in the UK.It will be sited at Junction 9 of the M5 and adjacent to the A46 and the existing M&S Simply Food, Starbucks and BP petrol station.The reserved matters application submitted by developer Robert Hitchins Ltd provides detailed information for the garden centre development, including layout, landscaping, scale, car parking and elevations in line with the outline planning permission already secured.The new garden centre will share the same overall 180-acre site as the proposed 195,000 sq ft Designer Outlet Cotswolds which will feature some 90 retail units, restaurants and cafes along with 850 new homes, a school and a local centre.Infrastructure works are due to commence later this year with both the garden centre and outlet village planned to open in the autumn of 2022.
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