A decades-old shopping arcade in Nottinghamshire could be demolished to make way for a new supermarket and retail development.
Plans have been submitted to demolish the Rosemary Centre in Walkden Street, Mansfield and replace it with budget food store, Lidl, as well as further retail units.
The proposed scheme by property developers, Peveril Securities, plans to also make consideration for the £12m neighbouring 'Stockwell Gateway' redevelopment of the council’s bus station.
The Rosemary Centre is a three-storey building currently occupied by a number of retail units and tenants including Iceland and Domino's Pizza, with associated car parking to the rear.
While at ground level there is still employment uses, the developer explains the "majority of the upper floors are now vacant" despite trying to attract and secure tenants.
It adds: “The Rosemary Centre building has been in place for circa 70 years and has reached the end of its natural life, so it, together with its associated car park lying to the rear feeding on to Union Street, is intended to be completely redeveloped.
“The application submitted seeks consent for the demolition of the Rosemary Centre building and its redevelopment.”
The history of the site is outlined in the design and access statement which states until 120 years ago the site was residential with allotment gardens.
From then until the 1950s the site became industrial being used as an iron foundry and lace factory, which were then demolished for a larger building used as a mill until 1976 which became the Rosemary Centre, mirroring the town's retail expansion.
To give the site a new edge, the majority brick construction with "profiled sheet cladding as a secondary material" is proposed to be replaced with "modern crisp finishes".
"Drawing on the Rosemary Centre’s existing secondary material for inspiration, and surrounding developments such as St Peters Retail Park frontage and Portland Retail Park for example."
Rosemary Street and Walkden Street will remain as the main access points, but a new mini-roundabout is proposed to allow separate access to the new Rosemary Centre development, or the new hotel.
There are 152 parking spaces included in the plans; nine spaces will be for mobility vehicle uses as well as nine parent and child bays.
Architects Whittam Cox, state in the design documents: "This proposal will be constructed to a high quality with sensitivity to the local environment, employing contemporary and sustainable design and materials to create an attractive, high quality building which is appropriate to its surrounding built environment.
"The wider landscaping scheme aids to site the building within its context, whilst providing visual and ecological benefit to the area.
"The proposal utilises its locality to ensure good accessibility and promote sustainable transport methods.
"Overall the high quality scheme will create improved visibility of Walkden Street, Union Street and Quaker Way by offsetting the retail units back from Rosemary Street towards the Four Seasons shopping centre.
"This will further improve town centre connections and overall impressions from visitors travelling through Mansfield."
