Developer Foinavon has submitted a two-part planning application for a £20m redevelopment of the former Usher’s Brewery site in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
Berkshire-based Foinavon, along with finance company Mystique of Jersey, acquired the 3.4ha (8.5-acre) site earlier this year and plans to build several shops up to 1,300 sq m in size along with leisure facilities and housing. Usher’s closed in early 2000.
“Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire but it has missed out on the recent growth in retail floor space benefiting other centres,” said Foinavon’s development director Paul Bench.
The site is divided in two by Trowbridge’s Church St. The old brewery, which is listed, occupies one site while the bottling plant occupies the other. Part of the old brewery will be redeveloped as flats while the bottling plant will be demolished to make way for a retail, leisure and residential development with a large town-centre car park.
If planning consent is granted, construction could begin next spring.
EGi News 15/10/01
