Huge household goods firm The Range plans to expand Sheffield store into groceries
Food plans for huge neighbourhood household goods store
A well-known chain of household goods stores plans to add food to the shelves of its store on a popular Sheffield retail park.
The Range, at the Drakehouse Retail Park, near Crystal Peaks wants to add a line of food and drink products, for consumption off the premise, to its shelves.
The Range took over the site from Homebase last year.
The company wants to sell perishable, items including cheese, meat and dairy products, a range of ambient, non-perishable tinned and packet goods, a small selection of non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages.
It would mean bringing in fridges and freezers.
The frozen goods would be Iceland products, the company has told council officials, as The Range has links to the company.
But it needs planning permission to do so, and has filed a planning application with Sheffield Council.
It wants to be allowed to use up to 250 sq m of its floor space for the display and sale of food.
The Range had originally been restricted to selling certain items to protect other local businesses, but food was not one of the items that was in the list.
The original planning permission restricted the sale of clothing, footwear and sports goods, fashion accessories, jewellery and toys to ‘protect the vitality and viability of Sheffield City Centre and Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre’.
But its current planning permission is for non food retail.