A planning utility has been submitted to create a brand new drive-thru espresso store on the website of a new-build Lanarkshire grocery store which can open later this yr.
The constructing is proposed for the positioning at Carlisle Street in Airdrie at the moment being developed by Lidl, with the restaurant being one among two further retail premises which got approval in precept as a part of final yr’s profitable utility for the meals retailer.
Official paperwork submitted to North Lanarkshire Council describe the brand new premises as a Starbucks department and its brand seems on utility statements, website plans and artists’ impressions of the event; though the corporate says it at the moment has “no updates to share about plans in Airdrie”.
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The appliance for full permission for the 235 square-metre espresso store outlines that it might be constructed on the a part of the positioning closest to Craigneuk Avenue, on the other aspect of the previous warehouse website to the under-construction Lidl department.
It will be open from 6am to 10pm every day and have 30 parking areas plus two electrical car charging factors; whereas new panorama planting is proposed for the positioning nook on the junction of Craigneuk Avenue and Carlisle Street.
A Starbucks spokesperson advised Lanarkshire Dwell: “We're at all times on the lookout for new areas and alternatives to convey the Starbucks expertise to clients within the UK, however at the moment we now have no updates to share about plans in Airdrie.”
Planning and transport paperwork submitted as a part of the appliance each check with the supposed operator by title, with the previous noting: “Along with its social operate, espresso homes like Starbucks are more and more turning into areas the place clients maintain conferences, interviews, and enterprise lunches.
“Starbucks acknowledge the connection between espresso homes and the enterprise group, encouraging clients to linger of their shops by offering free wifi together with further plug factors for laptops and hand-held gadgets.”
The transport assertion provides: “The drive-thru unit could have segregated parking accessible by way of a precedence junction on the northern aspect of the primary backbone highway; the Starbucks unit will probably be serviced outwith opening occasions to make sure that any potential for buyer and repair car battle is eliminated.”
Lidl started building work on the former distillery warehousing website final month and plan to open the brand new grocery store, their seventh in North Lanarkshire, later this yr.
Forty jobs are to be created on the retailer, with plans for the shop and two adjoining retail items gaining unanimous approval after they went earlier than councillors in January 2021.
The positioning, beside Airdrieonians’ house floor, grew to become vacant when former proprietor Distell Worldwide moved to state-of-the-art new premises in East Kilbride, with the historic warehouses being demolished firstly of this yr.