PLANS have been lodged to install over a dozen CCTV cameras on a former shop in south Cumbria as part of the development of a proposed convenience store.

James Hall and Company Limited has submitted proposals to Westmorland and Furness Council to add 15 CCTV cameras and one dome camera to the former Age UK Concern shop on Lindale Road in Grange.

In 2021 plans were approved to convert the site into a SPAR convenience store and a petrol station.

The proposals consisted of the demolition of existing buildings and construction of a convenience store, a petrol filling station including underground fuel storage tanks as well as works to the existing culvert and associated access, car parking and landscaping.

According to planning documents the cameras would be part of the proposed convenience store development and therefore would not be an ‘incongruous feature’.

Previously, former chair of Grange Town Council Tricia Thomas said the proposed convenience store and petrol station was a welcome addition to the area as it would bring two much-needed resources which the area has been crying out for.

“They want to turn it into a supermarket and that is what we need as the other is on the other side of town which is a long way for some people”, Cllr Thomas previously said.

She explained the closest petrol stations to the Grange peninsula are on the A590 near the Gilpin Bridge and Newby Bridge.

The town council gave no objections to the proposals from James Hall and Co – who run Spar – which has been in the works for more than a decade. The original plans for the site to become a Booths later fell through.

The site near the coastal town’s railway station had been home to a charity superstore for four years and was a Toyota car dealership before that.

During the four years that Age UK South Lakeland ran its charity collection depot and shop at Lindale Road, it raised around £300,000 to plough back into its services for older people.

The petrol filling station will have six pumps and there will be 19 car parking spaces as well as two electric charge points.

The convenience store on the former brown belt site will have a net floorspace of 278 square metres.

Fifteen full-time and 15 part-time staff are proposed, and the shop would be open 6am to 11pm, Monday to Sunday according to planning documents submitted for the proposed development.