If you love luxury brands with discounted prices, then news that another designer outlet village is being created within reach of Nottingham will be music to your ears.
Work began on the £100m designer shopping village close to the A1, south of Grantham this month and is due to open in 2023.
Some 140 shops, restaurants and coffee shops are set to be built on the site, with the names of the first retailers expected to be announced later in the year, Lincolnshire Live reports.
Nottinghamshire residents already have access to a designer outlet village to the north of the city, the McArthur Glen East Midlands Designer Outlet in South Normanton.
Giles Membrey, managing director of designer outlet retail specialists Rioja Estates, said: “Machines on the ground today will create opportunities for local residents, businesses, and national and international brands tomorrow.
"Our scheme will offer a memorable day out for those who live nearby and those from farther afield, while retailers and restaurants that open here will benefit from a catchment that includes the residents, students, workers and tourists of towns and cities such as Cambridge, Nottingham, Leicester, and Lincoln.
"We are supporting local jobs both during and beyond construction, and are championing Grantham which will benefit from additional footfall from visitors to the outlet village.”
The project is expected to create around 1,500 jobs and includes the creation of a new junction on to the A1 for access to the site - the junction is due to open by September 2021.
Sir Richard Tollemache, chairman at the Grantham-based property investment firm Buckminster, said: “The Grantham Designer Outlet Village offers us not only the opportunity to create one of the UK’s most successful outlet retail destinations, but to build a better future for our community in Grantham.
"As a family-run, Grantham-based business we are incredibly passionate about this project because we believe in the benefits it will bring to the area: new jobs, new investment and new visitors to the town centre.
"The Grantham Designer Outlet Village will be absolutely driven by its contribution to our local economy and society from day one.”
Open-air boulevards and covered walkways will allow for easy social distancing and fresh air. The scheme will also contain benefits that ensure retailers can continue trading, no matter under what circumstances, including an e-commerce platform and delivery service.
The project is part of a wider drive for coordinated regeneration in the area which includes Lincolnshire County Council's £100m Grantham Southern Relief Road, Buckminster’s nearby 3,700-home Garden Village, and South Kesteven District Council’s plans to revitalise Grantham itself.
Nearby Downtown Superstore, which is off the Gonerby Junction of the A1 has planning permission for the Downtown Grantham Designer Outlet, a £125m scheme of more than 100 stores, a garden centre and a leisure centre at Gonerby Moor.
