Published on:
10
June 2011
The Council has agreed to modify a legal agreement to allow a small supermarket to open at Sterling Mills Outlet Village in Tillicoultry.
When the Outlet Village was originally granted planning permission in 1997 the Council placed a Section 75 Agreement on the development restricting the types of shops which could operate there. This was to stop the complex competing with existing town centre businesses.
The owners of Sterling applied to the Council to modify this legal agreement and the application was considered at yesterday's meeting of the Planning Committee.
Councillors agreed unanimously to permit an area within the outlet village to be used for a supermarket.
Councillor Bobby McGill, who moved the recommendation, said: "I think a new supermarket at Sterling Mills will help the whole complex to remain viable. Around 200 people are employed there and this supermarket will create 75 additional jobs and that is very important. The Council has to do everything it can in this current climate to sustain and create jobs. Sterling attracts people into Clackmannanshire, so I don't think this will have an impact on the existing town centre shops."