Iceland and McDonald's among high street names lined up for new Burntwood retail park
Up to 12 new shops, a drive thru restaurant and hundreds of parking spaces will transform shopping in Burntwood under multi-million pound plans.
Developers want to build on the former Olaf Johnson site off Cannock Road and on land adjacent to Milestone Way.
Frozen food giant Iceland, discount store B&M and a B&M Garden Centre are included as tenants who will move in once the development on the 2.09 hectare site is complete in documents submitted to Lichfield District Council.
Initial plans for 16 shops on the site were first approved in 2007 but delayed by developers because of the credit crunch.
It would have been the first phase of the Burntwood Town Centre regeneration scheme.
It is proposed 271 parking spaces are built for shoppers.
Owners London and Cambridge Estates propose limiting motorists to three hours parking time because of the lack of public parking serving the wider Burntwood town centre area.
There would also be other space for 32 bikes there.
Town, district and county councillor Sue Woodward said: "This is a really welcome development for Burntwood.
"People have said for a very long time that we need more retail choice – for a town getting on for 30,000 people. It is an early Christmas present for Burntwood.
"But we have got to be conscious that we also have little shopping centres that have worked to improve their appearance."
As part of the main block of the development, between six and nine shops will be built stretching the length of its car park.
Another block to the left of that would contain three shops. The proposed drive thru restaurant would be built in front of the first block and car parking spaces.
A vacant Tesco Express is to the east of the site, along with the McDonald's drive thru restaurant.
Burntwood's county councillor Jeff Sheriff said: "It is principally housing I'm against. We don't want to take up what little space we have got left with housing."
Burntwood Town Council's planning committee will discuss the plans at a meeting on January 5 before Lichfield District Council's equivalent decides what to do with the application later.
It is hoped motorists would get to the site by using the Morrisons roundabout on Milestone Way. Another arm would be built on the internal roundabout which serves that supermarket.
