Tesco will have to wait until East Lindsey District Council’s Planning Committee meet on Thursday, 15th December before they find out if their plans for a new superstore on Station Road, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire are to get the green light. The store will occupy the site of the existing sports centre which Tesco will be relocating…
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Home Bargains are to open their latest store on the Skippingdale Retail Park, Holrood Drive, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, this Saturday (12th November, 2011). Around £½m has been spent refurbishing and preparing the store for its new residents who have just bought up 30 of the bankrupt Woolworths stores off their administrators. Home Bargains have also…
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Butters Group, the pot plant company based at Westside, Spalding, Lincolnshire, has invested £700,000 in refurbishing the old nursery and building a new packhouse. The venture has created a 1.6 hectare glasshouse for the raising of bedding plants and bulbs and a 2,100 square metre packhouse for packing up bouquets to be sent to supermarkets…
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Tesco are in the final stages of their planning application to build a new store in the Barnard Avenue/ Spring’s Way / Spring’s Parade /Cary Lane district of Brigg, Lincolnshire. If approval is given by the North Lincolnshire planning committee when they meet on Wednesday, 16th November, building work can then get underway. Tesco estimate…
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The Co-op has been granted planning permission to relocate its existing High Street, Broughton, Lincolnshire store to the space behind the Dog and Rat public house at the corner where the High Street turns into Broughton Lane. Around £1½m is being spent making the move to the new premises which, at 280 square metres, will…
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Eminox, the exhaust and emissions company, is expanding its North Warren Road, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, UK Head Office. The company, which has a turnover of £40m and employs 270 people, has created 50 job vacancies. Eminox say that they are particularly interested in people with skills in welding and engineering. Eminox’s main success has been in…
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Tesco are making 92 staff redundant at their Barlborough distribution centre inLincolnshire. The news follows on from the decision for Tesco to move their grocery operation to Daventry in Northamptonshire. The 92 redundancies consist of 87 warehouse workers and 5 managers. Volunteers have been sought and a statutory consultation period now entered into. Tesco say…
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The Game Keeper on Newark Road, South Hykeham, Lincolnshire will be closing on Sunday, 25th September in order for a £300,000 refurbishment to take place. The pub will then open again as a Fayre & Square pub on Saturday, 22nd October. There will be a so-called soft launch on Monday, 10th October, by which time…
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B&Q will be opening the former Focus store on the Fairfield Industrial Estate, Louth, Lincolnshire in October 2011. A host of new job vacancies have been created and the former Focus staff have been retrained. Focus closed this summer and B&Q paid £23m for a selection of its stores around the country. More about B&Q…
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Marks and Spencer have put in to transform the site occupied by the Stephen Smith Garden Centre in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire into a new flagship store. Under M&S’ plans, the garden centre would be demolished and a new store and 6 adjoining retail units built in its place. An estimated 3,250 square metres of retail…
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