Plans for a giant Next store at Ventura Park
TAMWORTH Informed has learned of plans for a giant Next and Next at Home store at Ventura Retail Park with almost 7000 sq. metres of retail space.
The plans will see a combined footprint for the Next and Next at Home brands and incorporate a mezzanine floor featuring a café as part of the company’s new Next Home and Garden format.
The plans, submitted by J.B. Aucott show that the store is to be at the current location of Homebase at Unit 1, next to the new exit on to River Drive.
To facilitate the new store and increased floor space the plans are to extend the retail space in to what is currently the garden area of Homebase and the introduction of a mezzanine floor.
In total the floors pace will increase by 90 sq. metres at ground level and 1329 sq. metres as a mezzanine floor. This is compared to the existing Homebase store.
Seven car parking spaces will also be lost as part of the plans.
What do you think of the plans for the new store? Let us know.
the location on the planned Next store
Laura Leicester this is the future
Looks like we gonna end up working together lmao x
This won’t be for a while yet anyway lol
Did u know this? I’ve known for 2 months but didn’t say owt until confirmed lmao x
#2 years time
Nope
Donr get where homebase is going unless thats going where the next home store is now
2017 then haha said be a while off yet
God knows…the other crazy fing is the other nexts in certain parts of country hav garden centres in store…got a feeling this new 1 might hav 1 too lol
Might get more hours …extra cleaning😍#moremoney#pensionscheme😂
Gonna have a cafe too lol, gonna need more cleaners if gonna be a bigger store 😂😂😂 that was my first thought haha x
We nearly had a cafe at our store but the plans fell through last year lmao
Might get more hours 😍
They can move yor burger van then to this new place 😍
Jason’s jackets 😍
Gotta love the future…..new plans…excitement woooo
Woooo!!!
U will hav ya new car then too ☝️
Hopefully yeah haha
Cnt we have shops we dont have already
Yes primary would be good
We need a Primark not the same shops we already have.
So Home base are going????
What’s going where next home is then?
So I wonder what’s going into the old Next store?
Katie Sharpe Jodie Purcell
Mill let me know haha
There’s already a big next in Tamworth by John Lewis. And a small one by new look x
I know yeah we’ve been in them 😂 we go into all the nest the homes and that x
Why when we’ve already got one. We need pimark
We already have one give us a primark as we keep hearing we getting one and aren’t x
We’re not getting one.
Shop owner I know, spoke to some manager of Primark and they said our town won’t give some sort of payment (helping hand) to set up business here, so they are choosing else where.
No surprise there always have shops we all ready got no wonder tamworth going down hill
Would do tamworth the world off good I have to go to button or birmingham for nearest one
They won’t help them out cause they know it do tamworth some good having one here
It’s the one shop the majority want and we get ANOTHER Next!
So true Steph Allman
My husband did a petition about getting a primark and it went to the papers but nope nothing happened
He needs to do another one I bloody sign it and know loads more would As well x
At least we will have one a bit closer to us when the one at the Fort opens … Primark are missing out by not coming to Tamworth
Steph it’s not another Next. Technically it’s one less…
Ohh I missed the bit where it’s mentioned they are closing the current one, still we need a primark lol
Kim Adkins there’s going to be one at the fort?? Xxx
Yeah opens this winter ? http://www.suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk/Fashion-chain-confirms-new-Erdington-store-open/story-26344450-detail/story.html
Fab!! Xx
they already got 2 stores,not like it’s something new,it’s all making sense now with that new exit.
This is a huge mistake! Shoppers love to wander from clothes shop to clothes shop,not trek to the other part of the retail park. Moving away from the other fashion retailers destroys the comparison shopping with the others apart from Matalan.
Stacey Burns
Really need a quality high street store moving into the town centre to increase footfall, guessing there’s little chance of this.
They just don’t have units big enough.
No, our shopping habits have changed so much. Just a shame to have so few quality shops left in the centre.
We need primark x
We really do!! I avoid the one in brum ….. But I love it!
So was that part of the plan with the new entrance in preparation for this??
And will we still have a homebase at all? As this will be the 2nd time it’s moved in 10 years.
that would be a nightmare when it comes to the sale, not that it will effect the sane people that don’t go
Why does everyone want a primark! I don’t! Bring on new next, leaves space for two new stores to come.
Me neither. A shop that sells cheap tat or a shop that sells decent stuff ummmm no brainer really
Won’t affect me don’t shop in either of their stores but it does seem odd after all these years of asking for an exit there that it happens now.
Yeah don’t need another one …Primark are missing out by not coming here .
Fab idea. X
I think I’m the only one who doesn’t care that we aren’t having a primark 😀
This has to be a joke?????!!!! I’m moving!
Larger than life shops, and how is the car park facilities going to cope?
How are we going to structure and strategically plan the road network?
It’s good news for the town, I do however wonder what the future is, and how the strategy for expansion is taking place.
The retail park grows in size, but the facilities around it don’t. Hmm…….
Will this new next have a Starbucks. I need Starbucks more than a primark.
Ah the nippleless mermaid
Looking at their new format it appears it will have Starbucks
Indeed. At least you can be sure that the milk isn’t hers.
Wish somebody new would take residence!!
Paula Moloney Karen Poulton
Woohoo!!!!
We will have moore shops than people soon
? There will be the same amount of shops…
Would be nice to have a Dunelm Mill shop go into one of the stores vacated by Next - they seem to go for that size of store.
Hope this happens…will be fab.
Next is far from where it was in its heyday. Can’t remember the last thing I bought from them. Suppose it’s more space for those trails of rubbish they ship in when they have their “sales”.
Jennie Hopkins, new Next store at Homebase, Ventura and Primark is opening at The Fort!
Steph George
😍☺️😍☺️😍☺️😍
We need a debenhams store, dont keep repeating the 1’s we’ve already got!
Don’t shop at next but love the dunelm idea someone just mentioned. I guess a bigger store means more jobs again for the locals at least xx
Primark is one of the most popular stores. Most people can’t afford to shop at next and having bought stuff from there it washes and irons crap and yes I can say that I run a busy business ironing. Most of our younger people and those on a budget love Primark so let’s fight for one.
Mandy Quinton