A DECISION on whether a new supermarket which could create 300 new jobs can be built as part of a wider development scheme in an East Yorkshire town is expected to be made this summer.
Driffield Cattle Market Company Ltd has applied for permission to build the store on land near Market Place in Driffield, having said it hopes to attract a major chain if the proposals are approved.
Similar plans were unveiled in 2010, also including shops, housing and community facilities, but this project is no longer considered to be viable.
If the scheme is given the go-ahead, it will see the town’s cattle market - which closed in 2001 - redeveloped, and the applicants’ agents said the supermarket would improve Driffield’s shopping offer and bring a derelict site back into use.
The 5,500sqm store would have 347 parking spaces and could employ 300 full and part-time staff.
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