Big new Next store will mean up to 50 jobs for Stafford
A Next clothing store in Stafford will be knocked down and the outlet moved into a combined fashion and home store nearby, creating 50 new jobs.
Plans have been approved to demolish the fashion shop on Queensville Retail Park and to move it in with Next Home, which is also on the Silkmore Lane retail site .
The company plans to extend the unit 11, currently Next Home and sell all products from the one combined outlet.
It is not known what will happen to the site of the demolished Next clothing store.
The development will mean a £7m investment to the area, according to Hercules Unit Trust, which submitted the plans.
The trust owns of the shopping site and were approved by Stafford Borough Council.
Next took over the current clothing store in 2008 and opened the home store in 2010.
The extension of the current home store and the changes to the layout of the car park will mean the loss of 52 spaces.
A cafe will also be included in the new store.
However, developers claim the new development will deliver ' a high quality well designed building that will complement and enhance the retail park'.
The new extended 'dual format' store will sell women's wear, menswear and children's wear, as well as a Next Home store, selling furniture and home furnishing goods.
The store will also have separate entrances for the fashion departments and the home range and the company had also hoped to introduce its 'home and garden' store, including an external garden centre but there is not enough space at the site to accommodate an external garden centre.
The new extended store will be open next year. Other retailers on the site include Hobbycraft, New Look, Pets at Home, Matalan, Mothercare, Brantano, Poundstretcher, and ASDA Living.
