Business will create 40 new jobs in Gloucester

It used to be an airfield and home to factories making iconic aircraft, but a bustling business park in Brockworth is about to welcome the latest addition - an investment creating 40 jobs for Gloucest

It might be called Gloucester Business Park, but the Brockworth site is actually on Tewkesbury Borough Council’s patch - and the council’s just approved the latest investment for a major business.

Borough planners have backed the proposals for a new supermarket on a northern plot of the business park, which was once an airfield and site of a factory making iconic aircraft such as the Hawker Hurricane, Gloster Gladiator, and the Gloster Javelin.

The scheme, by the British arm of the German discount supermarket Lidl, includes a 1,975 sqm store and will have 118 car parking spaces including 12 parent and child spaces and seven accessible parking bays along with six electric vehicle bays and cycle parking.

The new store is expected to create up to 40 new jobs and the proposed opening hours would be from 7am to 10pm Monday to Saturday and from 10am to 4pm on Sundays.

Rosie Meehan, regional head of property for Lidl Great Britain, called on Tewkesbury Borough Council’s planning committee to app…