CORNWALL Council has approved with conditions Catesby Property Group Plc’s planning application for the provision of three new retail units at Bude’s Binhamy retail park.

Members of Bude-Stratton Town Council planning committee had objected to the plans amidst fears that they would have an adverse effect on businesses in the town.

Originally the application was to bring two large retail units to the site and join both the already open Lidl store and the planned B&M Home and B&M Garden Centre, but as Catesby Property Group planning administrator David Morris explained when he presented the new plans to town councillors in January, the size of the units needed to be altered in order to meet tenant demand with interested parties claiming the two large units were ‘too big for the catchment area’.

If permission was granted to split the units into three instead of two, Mr Morris said clothing retailer Peacocks had shown ‘strong interest’.

Cornwall Council approved the application in April provided the usual planning conditions are adhered to.