Tesco abandons store plans for London Road (From St Albans & Harpenden Review)

Tesco abandons store plans for London Road

1:13pm Monday 8th February 2010 in

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SUPERMARKET giant Tesco has abandoned its plans to build a store in London Road.

The company will relocate its town centre store in St Peters Street in place of the former Woolworths site and has announced today that work will start early in the summer.

Tesco spokesman Nick Gellatly said: "We've been looking for the best way to improve the shopping trip for our St Albans customers for some time. Here we have an opportunity to almost double the sales area so that local people can get a great value weekly shop at Tesco in the city.

"We've taken this opportunity to look at the emerging local development framework too and to consider the future of our London Road site. I can confirm that we do not intend to submit a new application for a supermarket on this site.

"We've asked Spen Hill Developments Ltd, our subsidiary company, to look at alternative uses for the site and they will shortly begin discussions with the council. We will announce plans for the site in due course but they will not include a large store."

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