TESCO - new site in Accrington.
 

Thanks to GypoDec for pointing out to us that "activity" has started on the old college site, near the Railway Station. Its hard to see the full extent of the site as you have to "peep" through "fencing" on the railway station side. The site is MASSIVE, it will be an eye opener when we get to see the whole site cleared.
The first photo is an old view. I have tried to mark the approx. site to give members an idea of where it covers.
The other photos were taken 20th Jan, 2010

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Thanks for the pics Atarah,.. there pulling it down fast, theyd only just started when i saw it.

And..... Dare i say it,..... LOOK AT ALL THAT SCRAP METAL !! :o haha

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lol i cant wait to see how bad blackburn road gets for traffic jams after this is completed yu can barely get past as it is becaue of illigaly parked cars so throwing in extra traffic from tescos isnt going to make things any better

the tescos in ozzy has already cause huge problems but big companies dont seem to have any problems getting things approved by councils, the new one is osy has seen a quiet lane safe for locals to walk down into a double parks speed track and exiting the place is an accident waiting to happen infact a few accidents have occured already

is this one going to be a full sized tesco or one of those mini tesco stores that arnt cheaper than any other shop on the high street

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is this one going to be a full sized tesco or one of those mini tesco stores that arnt cheaper than any other shop on the high street.

All systems go for new Tesco - News - Accrington Observer
Bear in mind, this is dated Sept 2008.

Going off the size of what can be seen already, I would say its going to be a mega massive one! Good comments you posted accyman about traffic problems. The obvious move will be to make an entry/exit on Scaitcliffe Street as well as on Eagle Street, but with both of these having to get out onto Blackburn Road it must cause terrible traffic problems.

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So we can take it that you'll be round with your horse and cart them Dec:D

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What mystifies me is which route will HGV's take to deliver to the store ? Surely Blackburn Rd - Eagle st is not an option, Scaitcliffe st possibly but would they get under the railway bridge ? The only other option I can see is via Eastgate/Manchester Rd and along Grange Lane. Anyone got a clue ?

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Haha i myt pop round and lets say,...... Offer to take it off there hands lol ;)

Me poor horse couldnt shift that anyways lol :) Id need tha transit !!

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No, it would be along Wellington St instead of Grange lane. Got my streets mixed up :(

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hey in 60s, would have hired one from trelfalls down clayton n nabbed it meself.:D

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Haha we'll go halfs on the profits Cashman ;)

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well unless blackburn road starts following UK traffic laws and not pakistans i dont think the store will do to well because people will find it much easier to go to asda or drive the extra to blackburn tesco or haslingden tesco if they dont fancy asda unless part of the deal for bringing a tesco to accrington is that the council and teh police do somthing about it and not simply shrug its shoulders and give up trying to enforce the law down there like they did before :rolleyes:

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well theres one here that drives to blackburns, but will certainly use accy tesco.:)

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yeah but you could polevault to accy's nevermind drive ,if you lived on avenue parade for example it would be a lot less hassle to got to haslingdens tesco even though its twice as far if not three times the distance to travel

im not counting tesco express stores because they arnt cheap infact an item at ossy tesco that cost 54p is 98p at the accy tesco express and when i asked why its because ossy tesco has more competion so they make prices cheaper there which to me is wrong as each store shoud have teh same price throughout its range and prices shoud not be based on what they think they can get away with charging in one particular area over another

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Can I just pass on this info. By chance, as I was walking into the Reference Library (which has a new name, cant remember it though) I spotted a large map on the wall by the entrance door. Its dated 1892 and just happens to be more or less about the EXACT area where the new Tesco is gonna be. Its just an ABSOLUTE COINCIDENCE its on the wall. It proves that the site of Tesco is .. absolutely bang on the site of all the track and buildings etc of our lovely old Accrington railway station. It shows where the waiting rooms were, the parcels office, the refreshment rooms. It shows where the Goods Shed was, behind the wall which now faces the front of The Globe centre.
Pop in and have a look, its rather interesting.

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thanks atarah will pop in on monday n have a good sneck.:)

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I believe there is an intention to do something with the roundabout, etc., here .. but that's all I know ... suspect they don't know themselves yet.

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Its gonna cause chaos lol, ormerod street is already a nightmare,... double parked from top to bottom,.... plus the school traffic, then traffic from Tesco...

I dont think theyve picked the best site.

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Don't think this will be a problem to Tesco Dec ... they will just demand that Ormerod Street be demolished ... :D

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Haha Aye Katex,.... and slap a petrol station on top of the St Johns ambulance building lol

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had a sneck this morning some great pics, a couple of main platform 1 of accy station, when it was a station. ta atarah:)

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The security guard on this site is hilarious, bumped into him as he was walking around the site last night and got talking to him. He obviously knew we were travellers an was asking were our caravans were.

We told him tht a family of romanies had been evicted from the site a few months earlier and he kept asking who Victor was,..... we found this absolutely hilarious lol suppose the alcohol helped make it funnier.

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Atarah wants this on this thread for some reason.
Retlaw.

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Thank you very much Retlaw. Its just that its PERFECT for showing just where the site of Tesco's is gonna be built.

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I'll bet sum daft bu**er will question it, and ask where is it.

Retlaw.

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Where is it:D

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Its good to see more job,s will be comeing to accrington instend place,s and shop,s closeing.

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I might have known.

For every 10 persons there is always
one daft bu**ger. So there are a ek of
a lot on Accy Web when you consider
the membership.
And you take the biscuit.

:theband::theband::D:D:D:D:D:D
:tongueout
Retlaw.

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Their new employee's will be the ones made redundant by the shop closures, and most of them will be part time jobs just above the minimum wage. Britcliffe's gang were bamboozled with the promise of the new jobs.

Retlaw

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agree but manys shops gone before tesco foundations are built, so i take the view- owts better n nowt.:)

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Oh come on Retlaw you asked for that one:D:D:D:tongueout:hehetable:flamethro:flamethro: ello::ello::ello:

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Maybe not quite as Daft as you think he is :) guess where his first port of call will be should something go missing from the site Dec :confused: :confused:

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Just what are you suggesting Dave:D

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bet britcliffe has a tesco gold card and reserved parking at this one!

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Can see you have a thing about Peter, ******, at least spell his name right, or are you totally illiterate

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Not suggesting anything me old Mukker :) just that young Dec hasn't replied yet :D must have his hands full or something :D:D:D

Any Ol' Iron, any Ol' Iron, any any any Ol' Iron ;)

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Ha ha theyd blame me anyway even if i dint go up there lol.

We arent aloud to shout for metal when we go hoking anymore dave, its intimidating according to lancashire constabulary. So we just shove the amber lights on the roof on and beep our horns haha.

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Again, thanks to Less for making us aware of the legal document :
http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloa...L_DOCUMENT.pdf
Scroll down to page 41 point 7.24 for details of the area size of the new Tesco's, it will cover 8599 sq metres, with car parking and landscaping, but .....underneath is a super duper sketch of how the Tesco store will look.
Quite amazing!

TESCO - new site in Accrington.
 

Few photos from this morning. We can now easily see The Globe in the background.(wonder who years ago had the sense to retain one of the original walls of Howard and Bulloughs?) What a clever person! The whole site of this proposed Tesco's is huge!

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Got a couple of pics on my phone later on this afternoon of the HUGE digger taking the roof off! :D

Doubt the pics'll be any good tho

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Tesco say Accrington will be a `medium` sized store. and in comparison Haslingdon is classed as a `medium` sized store.

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Is that Gypodecs little yellow truck in picture (4):D

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Na,.. mines white,..... its a similar size tho haha lol

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White van man then Dec:rolleyes::D

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It seems this isn't as cut and dried as we thought it was. Tesco's are to be offered space on the new extension to the Arndale

Plans unveiled for £32m Accrington shopping centre expansion (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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Seems odd.

I thought demolition/building was well under way, and the new Tesco was due to open in June of this year.

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Nothing odd about it, it's this weeks masterplan. Tune in next week to see the plans to move Accrington Centre to the South Coast :D

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Demolition is well under way at Eagle Street G, maybe we will end up with a Morrisons as well.

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Smells fishy.

I know the Arndale vehmently opposed the plans for the new Tesco.

Could be the start of trolley wars.

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Hey, nice one LancsDave, hadnt heard a thing about this new plan! I cant believe they have knocked the building down (ok, unused, but....) and may now be considering new plans?????

Few photos from today, sun was in the way, so bit light, sorry.

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Very confusing Garinda .. thought all was on its way too .. :confused:

Well, if they had attached it to the Arndale (as Sainsburys intended to), they would have looked at it differently. If Morrisons are showing a serious interest, this may be Tesco's way of keeping them out.

Keep taking 'em Atarah .. that way we will know if building is going on for a Tesco on this site.

I think we need an explanation from the council chambers on this one !!

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In retrospect though, I suppose it will be years before this plan ever gets off the ground, so Tesco are looking up front showing an interest to move in there as and when, providing their Accrington store on Eagle Street has proved a success.

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Well, to say we thought the Tesco store may be on "hold", there was a heck of a lot of activity today around 4.00pm. Plenty of heavy machinery moving brickwork and rubble around, and... lots of new portacabins being dropped into place. And they have also started putting a blue gauze "covering" behind the green netting. Is that to stop people such as me taking piccy's? - but ... I can still see off the top of the railway bridge! Tee hee

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What little yellow truck, all I can see is a white van and a little orangy/red coloured digger.
Any way Gypo's only turn up when its dark,
luckily I've got a night vision scope, its surprising what you can see through it, just wish I could mount it on my camera.
Retlaw

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wonder who years ago had the sense to retain one of the original walls of Howard and Bulloughs?) What a clever person!

It was a whole block not just the wall, more like logical planning, and utilising existing buildings, cost effective, yes. That wall would have collapsed with out the support of the remainder of that block, may even have been listed.
Retlaw.

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Bottom left corner,you may need your day vision specs.:D

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Do you mean this, its a childs toy.
Bob the builder left it.

Retlaw.

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now there's a bonus

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Work is going on in earnest now on the excavation of the site. Loads of heavy machinery working flat out.

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Traffic to and from the site is horrendous, god knows what it will be like when the store opens.

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Well, as expected, they have created an entry/exit on Scaitcliffe Street for their vehicles. Views here from this area and from station area.

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Looks like a building site.............:rolleyes:

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I haven't stepped foot in a Tesco for years. Has anyone noticed they are taking over the country. Cheap? you only get what you pay for!

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Not so........if yer a good shoplifter.:D

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Maybe a lot of people can only afford cheap. Not everybody can afford to shop at Harrod's :)

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When you say "Cheap" how do you mean ? do you mean, yes they're cheap & good value for money ? or do you mean, cheap as in cheap & nasty ? :rolleyes: just curious as to your perspective is all, wouldn't want to be getting off on the wrong foot now would we ! (whether that foot is wearing Jimmy Choo's or Timpson, we can talk about that later :))

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just occured to me, when Tesco left Accy, i seem to remember loads of folk bitching, wonder if its any of them thats bitching now their coming back?:)

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i honestly hope they build the biggest and best tesco they have built for years, accrington really needs a boost be it a second rate supermarket, look at the arndale,
accringtons nuts have really been squeezed by the recession people have not got the money now to be picky

TESCO - new site in Accrington.
 

Update on new Tesco site

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Now confirmed that Tesco will continue to build the new site so you can keep taking photos :D


Accrington Arndale Tesco bid fails (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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I was being told yesterday that this isn't going to be a Tesco but a new Train Station, it also appears that there are no Tesco signs outside this site, I got this from a friend who stopped to have a look yesterday

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The Tesco site is on the old college and council buildings site. The new train station is being built on the train stations former car park.

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Tell your friend to look at the HI-Viz jackets of some of the workmen, they will find the word Tesco on them :D

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I'm not interested where they bought them dave:D

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Take no notice of owt "Andrew" tells ya.:D;)

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Think its just a new ticket office that is being built on the train stations former car park.

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I rather think that they may wait till it is built before putting the signs up,:D

Makes sense to me.:)

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It does make it easier if the walls are there to fix them to :D

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weren't Andrew cashy:D

TESCO - new site in Accrington.
 

Few up to date photos of the new Tesco site, all taken from railway bridge today

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there is a new station waiting room/ticket office being built but thats on the old station car park opposite what was Lars de Dars

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Now I have a fabulous birds-eye view of all that is going on at this site.
I was sad to see all the hazel and baby oak trees along the edge of the site were chopped down, (weeks ago now). Not sure why this was necessary but I suppose women may feel less vulnerable walking from the station to Scaitcliffe St.

What I'd like to know is what all the machinery is there. I have worked out (I think) that a machine that sounds like a huge food processor is actually breaking up large bits of concrete into smaller bits which is then fed into another machine that chews them even smaller.......
.....But what is that huge blue 'periscope' thing?
It doesn't look like an normal crane and there is a repetitive CHUG CHUG CHUG sound...Is it this blue thing? Or a large drill? And if so why would they be drilling holes when there must be sewage pies etc there already?

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There is some " stone crushers " to break up the old rubble .
The drill thing is to make holes for long R.s.j.'s to go in as upright for the building , before they are concreted into place.

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The drill thing is probably a pile driver ( don't say anything Accyman ;) )

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It is indeed a Pile Driver,If you need to know more here it is;


Pile driver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :)

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here u go - i took that on monday...

the big hole i assume is where the petrol tanks for the station would go

the street at the bottom is scaitcliffe st to give you some idea of direction

TESCO - new site in Accrington.
 

Work seems to be progressing well.

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Thanks Atarah

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It looks like a category 'B' prison.

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Nah mate theres no T.V. mast.:rolleyes:

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Don't need a mast anymore. Its all piped in broadband to every room.

TESCO - new site in Accrington.
 

Latest piccy's, taken this morning. Part of it resembles Blackpool's Big Dipper at the moment!
Last photo taken from railway bridge, showing just how near it is to the platform.

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Thanks Atarah, perhaps they'll rename the station to "Tesco Accrington"

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I was having a nosey yesterday and its a lot bigger than i expected.

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I've just had a quick look at the piccy's and made a comparison with an existing Tesco of the same basic design I know here in London. You will all be pleased to know that there will be one manned checkout open 3am-5am every other tuesday, and at all other times everything be barcode swipe and self checkout.

Have fun.

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these were took on tuesday .. when i went to see spugs off back home.

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:D... but there ain't as many shoplifters in Accy as there are in East London! :D

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I never thought I'd hear this but Tesco, Nelson is shutting, only a couple of years old, the car park was possibly the worst design in the World but somebody has dropped a xxxxxxx big style

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Two photos, from earlier today. Has the "extra" after the word TESCO any special significance?

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It means it is the largest type of store in the Tesco brand, basically it stocks more or less everything they do. I think the Blackburn one is a standard superstore

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I think the 'EXTRA' moniker is only used when a bung was paid, to ensure planning consent was given.



'This means the decision in favour of the store made by Hyndburn Council’s Planning Committee in June will stand and a further inquiry will not be needed.'

'Before then it needs to conclude an agreement with Hyndburn Council to pump nearly £1M into the regeneration of Accrington town centre.'
All systems go for new Tesco - Accrington Observer

:rolleyes:

Before people get too giddy about the million quid, just remember that the new roundabout near the Britannia pub in Ossy cost over £700,000.

So when the tumbleweed is blowing through the deserted streets, of the once thriving town, a million pounds isn't going to fund that many flower towers.