Worthing Borough Council

TESCO Planning Application (WB/09/0146/ARM)

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Tesco’s plans for Durrington development

An outline permission was granted on the 6 May 2008. The new application is for the reserved matters part of the application and refers to the layout, scale, appearance, access arrangements and landscaping.

The original outline application was to redevelop the existing district centre to provide a new district centre incorporating a Tesco superstore, shopper café, unit shops, community centre and associated car parking and access arrangements.

The 13,138sq metre superstore which includes nine retail units would be twice the size of the current supermarket and be built on land to the west of the existing supermarket and car park.  By building on undeveloped land the current centre can continue to operate until the new store opens. 

As part of the wider West Durrington development a new vehicle and pedestrian access would be built to the west to link the new District Centre to the proposed new housing development to the north-west of the site.  The western access will join Fulbeck Avenue at a roundabout. 

The car park has a standard layout but the route through it has been designed to deter ‘rat-running’ between Fulbeck Avenue and New Road/Romany Road.

The latest application includes plans to accommodate ‘mall trading’, small stalls often seen in shopping centres which add interest and variety along with nine smaller shops and a café to create the new District Centre.  

The proposed building would be contemporary in design featuring simple clean lines and different colour cladding systems to create visual interest.

The plans propose to reduce the height of the shop units at the southern end of the mall from the original outline application to reflect the scale of the housing estate around Varey Road.

The plans are available to view below, or at:

• Worthing Borough Council,
  Portland House,
  Richmond Road,
  Worthing.

Comments should be sent to the Development Control Manager at the above address or can be sent on-line using Planning On-line quoting the reference number WB/09/0146/ARM in the Application Search. Comments should be sent by 14th May 2009.

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