THE next phase of Southampton ’s largest housing development, including a supermarket bringing 225 mostly local jobs, has been given the go-ahead.
Councillors unanimously passed plans for 329 flats, a 60,000 sq ft food store and other shops, bars and restaurants around a civic square at the Centenary Quay development being built on the former Vosper Thornycroft site in Woolston .
Debbie Aplin, managing director of developer Crest Nicholson Regeneration, said: “It’s the next major part of the regeneration of this area”.
Tory group leader Royston Smith added: “It would be a dereliction of duty to refuse this application. It’s an excellent scheme.”
Labour council leader Richard Williams, who had marched with Woolston residents against the scheme four years ago, said he was “delighted”.
Crest Nicholson has already built 143 of the 1,620 homes it has earmarked for the site following earlier planning permission for the first 328.
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