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£5.8m Cannock DFS development takes shape

Construction of a new £5.8 million DFS store in Cannock is taking shape with the main skeleton of the building now in place.

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Construction of a new £5.8 million DFS store in Cannock is taking shape with the main skeleton of the building now in place.

The project – expected to be complete by October and ready for the Christmas shopping rush – is being built at a two-acre site off the A5 at Longford Island.

Contractors from J F Finnegan have been on site putting the towering structures into place.

Around 30 jobs are expected to be created at the site, with another unknown firm also expected to be part of the retail development. DFS is currently based on the Linkway Retail Park on the other side of Longford Island.

Mick Haragdon, project manager for new stores at DFS, said staff from the Cannock store would be relocated to the new, bigger, 17,000 sq ft building.

The site, at the point where the A5 Watling Street meets the A460 Wolverhampton Road, was formerly occupied by Exclusive Leather Sofas.

The development at the Longford Island roundabout is not the only new venture taking place in the area. A hotel and shopping complex, expected to create 100 jobs, is planned for the opposite side of the roundabout.

The £1.5 million development – including a 60-bedroom Travelodge hotel – is the showpiece of the Gallan Park development in Watling Street.

But its future remains unclear after an application for £750,000 worth of funding was refused by the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire local enterprise partnership in April.

The site also has 9,000 sq ft of retail space and seven acres of land available for businesses.

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