Finances grocery store Lidl has had its bid to construct a brand new retailer at Heathfield knocked again.
The corporate had made a joint bid with a housing developer to create as much as 120 properties on the Ayr website, adjoining to Asda.
One of many massive 'sells' of the joint proposal was that a third of the properties can be reasonably priced housing.
The proposal would see each Lidl and the housing growth accessed from a brand new roundabout on Heathfield Highway.
Council coverage states that solely shops underneath 1000 sqm, which meet 'neighbourhood wants' and can't be accommodated nearer to city centres are given permission for out of city websites like Heathfield.
Lidl sought to steer councillors that 'low cost retailing' was separate from different meals retailers with a view to circumvent the coverage restrictions.
Nonetheless, the report acknowledged: "It's thought of that the applicant has failed to supply passable proof to assist this assertion, nor any mechanisms by which such a retailer might be conditioned to make sure such a use in perpetuity."
It provides that not one of the circumstances search to limit the sale of things to a restricted vary of merchandise, nor provide any definition as to what 'low cost' means.
"It's thought of that the applicant has did not reveal why the shop must be thought to be presenting a singular set of traits of such magnitude as to require a special method to the evaluation of the proposal.
The report additionally criticises the applying for failing to think about Ayr inside its catchment space.
Planners additionally steered that the event of housing inside an space which has been thought of for industrial and lightweight business would have an effect sooner or later.
The report added: "The consideration of acceptability of noise era (specifically) inside an industrial space, in comparison with a location adjoining to housing could also be basic in figuring out the acceptability of future industrial proposals.
"It's thought of that residential growth could due to this fact compromise the expansion and growth of the already established enterprise / industrial space."
The applying was refused by councillors on Thursday, June 23.
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