Robin hood Chase planning application ‘ready by summer’

Regeneration Officer Alan Parker said today that a planning application for the Robin Hood Chase Redevelopment is to be submitted to Nottingham City Development Management in the summer.

The developer and Nottingham City Council are still considering moving the Chase neighbourhood Centre to a more suitable location. Alan Parker said that “we are seriously looking at this option, it all depends on the cost.

“We are presently drawing up the new plans with the developer with the view to working out the cost of the whole scheme, and then we intend to hold a consultation event with local residents sometime in April.

“Some of the shop units may have sheltered accommodation for the elderly above them. A new supermarket remains part of the scheme at the front of the Robin Hood Chase.”

Alan said they were currently talking to a small number of retailers with the aim of bringing the former Co-op store back into use, even if it is on a much smaller scale. “This could involve some form of retail training scheme for the unemployed,” he added.

The last tenants are now being relocated out of the maisonettes above the shops in the lower block presently housing the grocery store & chemist, while Loxley House is also nearly empty.

A date for demolition of Loxley House, the former Health Centre, and lower retail block has yet to be arranged.