Civil engineering company appointed to landmark retail and leisure development at Tewkesbury

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Nicky Godding

Bristol based civil engineering company Clarkebond has been appointed to provide civil and structural engineering services on the new premium outlet shopping and garden centre destination located at Tewkesbury on junction 9 of the M5 motorway and fronting the A46 trunk road.

The new 195,000ft² Designer Outlet Cotswolds village will be opened in two phases and will feature 90 retail units, restaurants, and cafes. Designer Outlet Cotswolds is part of an overall development together with a 74,000ft² Dobbies flagship garden centre and 850 homes, school, and a local centre. The outlet village will feature aspirational brands across fashion, athleisure, footwear, and lifestyle along with quality restaurants and coffee shops.

The garden centre will feature an extensive plants and gardening department, food hall, cookshop, pet department, table service restaurant, soft play area for children and have its own 500-space car park and much more.

Clarkebond engineers are currently assisting developer Robert Hitchins Ltd to satisfy the remaining reserved matters contained within the outline planning permission.

Contractors are on site having commenced the infrastructure works in preparation for the main project to start in 2021. The first phase expected to open towards with end of 2022.

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.