Plans for a £100m regeneration of Lincoln’s city centre have been given the green light by planners this week.
Joint landowners Lincolnshire Co-operative and Lincoln council have won outline consent for the Lindongate Quarter proposals for a 354,000 sq ft shopping centre to the east of the city centre. They comprise circa 218,000 sq ft of retail plus a 100,000 sq ft department store, 36,000 sq ft of restaurants clustered around the waterfront of the River Witham, plus a transport interchange.
Lincolnshire Co-op is now seeking a development partner to help deliver and manage the scheme. It is also in talks with three potential operators for the department store anchor.
The Lyons Sleeman Hoare-designed proposals include demolishing the existing bus station, the Oxford Hall hotel, and several shops on Sincil Street and Norman Street and replacing them with a shopping complex and department store.
A bus station will be built next to the train station, alongside 900 parking spaces, and possibly 21 residential units in addition to retail space.
However, the planning consent comes with certain conditions, including further surveying for contaminated land and flooding risks, plus detailed plans for parking provisions.
A detailed planning application will be submitted later this year.
The project would take just under three years to complete, and will create more than 3,000 jobs. Completion is expected by 2015.
Banks Long & Co is joint agent with Lunson Mitchenall.
