New images show what scaled-back Sainsbury's at Great Homer Street will look like



CGI images showing the new Sainsbury's at Great Homer Street, Liverpool
CGI images showing the new Sainsbury's at Great Homer Street, Liverpool

Plans for a new Sainsbury's at Great Homer Street in Liverpool have been approved by the city council.
The supermarket – which is to be smaller than originally envisaged – is a key element in the £150m Project Jennifer regeneration scheme for the area .
At a meeting of the planning committee in Liverpool town hall today councillors approved revised plans for the development in Everton .
Sue Smales from Sainsbury's told the committee the supermarket chain is “committed to investing in the area” .
But she said: “The proposed amendments are essential to Sainsbury's to ensure the financial viability of this scheme makes it deliverable.”
The original plan contained retail space of 60,000 sq ft, which will now be cut to 40,000 sq ft.

CGI images showing the new Sainsbury's at Great Homer Street, Liverpool
CGI images showing the new Sainsbury's at Great Homer Street, Liverpool

Initially it had been proposed that the store be built on “stilts” above a car park, but now the store will be on the ground floor. There will also be a petrol station but there will be fewer parking spaces, down from the 715 originally proposed to 463.
There will also be a block 12 other retail units.
The Sainsbury's is expected to create around 220 jobs, the planning committee was told.
Major highways works currently on and around Scotland Road, which are part of the scheme, are due to continue until the end of the year.
Planning committee member Cllr Richard Kemp asked if the reduced size of the supermarket would mean the Greatie Market, which was moved from the site and reduced in size, could now be extended.

CGI images showing the new Sainsbury's at Great Homer Street, Liverpool
CGI images showing the new Sainsbury's at Great Homer Street, Liverpool

Ms Smales said they currently do have an prospective tenant for the remaining space and they would be happy to discuss options for its use.
She also said that the reduced size, and decision to build the supermarket on the ground floor instead of stilts, meant the development would cost less.
However, chair of the planning committee, John McIntosh, said he was pleased to see work underway at the site after many years. He said: “We have had no objections whatsoever to this application. The community is 100% behind what is going on in Great Homer Street.”
Because of the scale of the application the decision of the planning committee to approve the scheme will now be referred to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Greg Clark, for final approval.

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