Booths wins 12-battle to open Penrith store (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Booths wins 12-battle to open Penrith store

12:38pm Friday 20th August 2010 in

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THE Booths supermarket chain has won a 12-year battle to build a new store in Penrith.

Work on the £11 million store, including a restaurant and a separate non-food retail unit, will start next month with the scheme due to be completed in time for Christmas 2011.

Jim Carter, director of the Eric Wright Group, which owns Booths’s development partner Maple Grove, said: “We have wanted to be in Penrith since 1998. We are absolutely delighted that a last we can bring a Booths to the district.

Up to 70 jobs will be created during construction and 50 full-time and 40 part-time jobs will be created when the retail units, located at the edge of the town centre, are completed.

Planning permission by Eden District Council was granted unanimously after being recommended for approval by its officers who said: “The development will generally upgrade the local environment both to its benefit and the town in general.”