FOUR hundred new jobs will be created in Bromborough if planners give the go-ahead to plans to build a mixed-use development comprising a new foodstore, business park and leisure facilities.

Lever Brothers and Trinity Investments hope to transform the disused animal feeds site adjacent to the Unilever works on the A41 New Chester Road in Bromborough.

The 17-acre site poised for regeneration is currently partially used as a car park. Levers has been particularly keen to develop the site, which lies in a prominent position on New Chester Road.

The company believes that the proposal would not affect operations at the factory and the plan includes a large amount of landscaping and screening which, it is hoped, will soften the factory frontage.

Part of the new investment plan entails the creation of a major new courtyard business development totalling 72,200 square feet.

Said Trinity's David Harrison: "The new development will create over 400 jobs. It will be a high quality location which will breathe new life into a former derelict urban area."

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