Another Starbucks drive-thru is planned for Scunthorpe as the first part of a major new Scunthorpe leisure park.
If approved, it would be the American coffeehouse giant’s third drive-thru outlet in the town. A planning application has been made to break down into stages the construction of a leisure park near Scunthorpe United’s ground.
The development, which would include two drive-thrus, five restaurants, a 120-bed hotel, three shop units, and a gym, received planning approval in April 2021. It is to be located on land off Jack Brownsword Way, just south of the existing Gallagher Retail Park.
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The latest application confirms Starbucks’ intention to run a drive-thru, the first time the chain has been linked to the development. Its construction, on land west of Burger King and Taco Bell, would be part of phase one of the leisure park.
A Starbucks drive-thru opened in Mannaberg Way late last year. Another one will open in the retail park being developed by the roundabout between Kingsway, Queensway, and Ashby Road. Construction there is well underway.
The proposed Starbucks off Jack Brownsword Way would have 170 sq m floorspace. It would also have two EV charging points in its car park. The unit, its car park, and the main access road into the leisure park will be the first phase of the leisure park’s development, if a phased approach is approved.
In part two, four restaurants and 110 car parking spaces will be created. The final stage of construction would involve the retail, gym and hotel bloc, and associated rear service yard, and remaining permitted car parking spaces.
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The leisure park was approved three years ago, somewhat reluctantly by councillors. Five members of planning committee abstained, with concerns raised about its possible impact on the town centre’s shopping scene.
The Starbucks drive-thru plan is the latest move in a rapid expansion of the chain’s presence in northern Lincolnshire. It already had a High Street store in Scunthorpe before it opened the first of what will be three drive-thrus in the town if the latest proposal is green-lit.
Meanwhile, in North East Lincolnshire, work began in early February on its new drive-thru at Grimsby’s Europarc. That is expected to open in the summer. It is expected to create 20 full-time jobs once up and running. Planning permission was also given to another in Morrisons car park, Laceby, in 2022.
In November 2021, Starbucks opened its first drive-thru in North East Lincolnshire, on part of the former Ramsdens site in Cleethorpe Road. Not far down the road, Louth got its Starbucks drive-thru the year before.
Kingsway retail park progress
Construction has already begun on the retail park to the east of Kingsway Road that will host Scunthorpe’s second Starbucks drive-thru. The retail park only gained planning permission on appeal last year, after councillors refused it.
The four hectare site used to be the home of Kingsway House. This was demolished in 2010. Co-op will run a convenience store, and The Tanning Shop is reportedly to be based in the other retail unit. Almscliffe-Dhesi Group are the site developers.
It is set to be completed this spring, and has already been sold to a private investor, reports Place North East. The application for the retail park anticipated it would create 50 full and part-time jobs.
Original artice: https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/all-about/scunthorpe