Plans go in for empty Spalding store

Plans have been submitted to alter an empty store.

The former Argos unit, in Holland Market, Spalding, has stood empty for more than a year but it could be receiving a number of alterations to ‘facilitate occupation for an incoming future tenant’.

Argos moved into the nearby Sainsbury’s store a few doors down in January last year - and the unit has stood empty since then.

Now the owners, Schroder Real Estate Investment Management Ltd, have applied to South Holland District Council to make the following alterations to the site:

- Providing a bin store to the soutern elevation

- Replacing a singe service door with a double door

- Air conditioning units to be removed in conjunction with the removal of vents on the southern elevation, to be infilled to match the existing brickwork;

- Replacing the existing fire door on the eastern elevation to be replaced.

The planning document states: “The application proposals are minor in scale and comprise a series of minor external alterations to facilitate occupation for an incoming future tenant.”

The owners had submitted plans for the former Wilko’s site, which is also in Holland Market, earlier this year.