A LONG-AWAITED Sainsbury’s
store opened in Dorridge today.
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The development at the former
It was opened by manager
Richard Perry, Dorridge Junior School
She was invited because she
has been a life-long customer of the supermarket while Olivia, eight, won a
competition to design a “bag for life”.
The store has 180 parking
spaces – free for up to two hours - accessed via Avenue Road and includes a
café and non-food items like clothes and electrical equipment.
The firm said it had created
180 jobs and extended and refurbished the adjacent Dorridge Practice.
The development has six
independent retail units which are, so far, Costa, Timpsons and Reflections
kitchens and bathrooms.
In a press release, Mr Perry
said: “It is a great honour to be managing such a fantastic new store and I
have been delighted by all the positive local feedback already received. We
look forward to serving local residents and really becoming part of the
community.”
The store is open from 8am to 9pm
Monday to Saturday and from 10am
to 4pm on Sunday.
A 1,812sqm sales area plan
was approved by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in November 2011 but
Sainsbury’s last year said it would not start work in 2013 because of economic
conditions.
It then won council
permission to increase the sales area to 2,276sqm, some 26 per cent larger. A
2,462sqm plan was rejected in 2010.
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