Asda Plans Get Go Ahead

Despite objections from Thurmaston Parish Council and residents concerns about traffic congestion on Barkby Thorpe Lane and the A607 roundabout, the plans to extend Asda have been given the go ahead by Charnwood Borough Council.
The extension will house the customer cafe and toilets, relocated from their present positions and the additional sales area will allow for the store to be modernised and the internal layout to be reorganised generating around 10 new full and part time jobs.
The car park will be redesigned to allow for parking spaces for parent and child and disabled customers to be located at the store entrance. The amount of available car parking spaces will be reduced by one space to 542.
The application also proposes to enclose part of the service area at the rear of the store.
Borough Councillor Brenda Seaton said, “The application was discussed at Charnwood Borough Council’s February meeting and Councillors voted in favour of the application. The scheme will involve the widening of the exit road from the store from one to two lanes, the left lane for traffic turning left and going straight on into the shopping centre and the right lane for traffic to turn right onto Barkby Thorpe Lane. Keep clear road markings will be painted on the carriageway and the Barkby Thorpe Lane roundabout”.