The Proposed Development
- Mixed use scheme to provide a new neighbourhood discount food store and over 3,000sqm of high quality office space.
- Provision of a brand new discount food store with 105 free parking bays of which 7 will be disabled spaces and 7 parent and child spaces.
- 14 parking spaces will be provided for the office units.
- Provision of 2 rapid electric vehicle charging points capable of fully charging an electric vehicle in 30 minutes.
- Contemporary foodstore building with a mixture of materials in-keeping with the local area.
- Soft and hard landscaping treatment to be applied to all external areas.
- New pedestrian access from Foots Cray High Street.
- A limited range of products (2,000 lines) necessitating continued use of existing local retailers.
- The creation of 40 London Living Wage Jobs (£10.85/hour).
- Enhanced accessibility including a pedestrian link and a new disabled lift facility for the benefit of the Hope Community School.
Proposed Lidl Store
The proposed building is designed to respond and enhance the site’s characteristics in terms of its configuration, surrounding built environment and relationship to the variety of uses within the vicinity. A quality palette of materials will be used throughout the development.
Benefits of the proposed development
The redevelopment of the site will provide the following benefits to the local area:
- A multi-million investment within Foots Cray.
- Redevelopment of a brownfield site.
- Provision of a larger discount food store.
- Improved local shopping amenity.
- Increased consumer choice.
- Enhanced social inclusion.
- Increased employment opportunities, both retail and office based.
- Energy saving technologies reducing the carbon footprint of the development.
- High quality design and building fabrics.
