Tesco set for crunch meeting on Camelon plan
A BLOT on the Falkirk landscape could soon be history.
Retail giant Tesco will take its bid to replace the eyesore at the abandoned Wrangler Jeans factory in Camelon with a mega 35,000 sq. ft store and petrol station to a crunch meeting with Falkirk Council next month.
The pre-determination hearing will reveal details of a multi-million pound plan to transform the Glasgow Road site and create hundreds of local jobs.
Tesco has been fighting red tape for a decade for the chance to open in Camelon.
Britain's biggest grocer paid a reported 4 million for the land in 1990 and lodged, but then withdrew, a series of planning bids after running into problems over the change of use.
It was frustrated by town hall planners consistently pointing to the local plan which identified the site exclusively for manufacturing.
That condition was eased slightly with the drafting of new rules which conceded a food store covering no more than 1000 square metres could be justified – and that changed dramatically in 2008 when the Labour-led administration signalled it was anxious to kick-start the regeneration of the proposed Western Gateway by removing the size limit. Tesco responded months later with its latest proposal.
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