IKEA at Marsh Mills

I hear from my West Country contacts that IKEA is coming to Marsh Mills.

In the words of my son's German girlfriend, "I fooking love Ikea"

I thought they'd ruled out Muff time and time again. We've got Trago and The Range, we'd don't need any of that foreign muck.

Would great if it did. Traffic could be a problem.

seadog wrote:

I hear from my West Country contacts that IKEA is coming to Marsh Mills.

In the words of my son's German girlfriend, "I fooking love Ikea"

Thats me skint and doing endless diy! my mrs loves ikea and makes me drive to bristol for the joy of it

I'm struggling with where it would go at Marsh Mills?

Prime land would be the site of the old Toshiba factory which has actually just been demolished. There's a huge carpark adjacent too.

Must admit, I like Ikea.

I hate IKEA.

The meatballs are fookin rank.

The furniture is ok but organised in a way which makes my eyes wanna bleed.

The fact my other half likes it and views it as a big day out makes it even worse.

Mock Cuncher wrote:

I hate IKEA.

The meatballs are fookin rank.

The furniture is ok but organised in a way which makes my eyes wanna bleed.

The fact my other half likes it and views it as a big day out makes it even worse.

Sufferedsince68 wrote:

seadog wrote:

I hear from my West Country contacts that IKEA is coming to Marsh Mills.

In the words of my son's German girlfriend, "I fooking love Ikea"

Thats me skint and doing endless diy! my mrs loves ikea and makes me drive to bristol for the joy of it

You're lucky Suffered! My wife loves IKEA and we have 2 of the bast*** places within driving distance.

mouldyoldgoat wrote:

Sufferedsince68 wrote:

seadog wrote:

I hear from my West Country contacts that IKEA is coming to Marsh Mills.

In the words of my son's German girlfriend, "I fooking love Ikea"

Thats me skint and doing endless diy! my mrs loves ikea and makes me drive to bristol for the joy of it

You're lucky Suffered! My wife loves IKEA and we have 2 of the bast*** places within driving distance.

You cant beat a two hundred mile round trip shopping ,its like watching chadwick and feeny almost

I love and hate the idea of this. My old dear, mother, loves IKEA. Whilst it resides in Bristol, I can quite reasonably restrict her to one, possibly two at a push, visits a year. I am the driver you understand. If one opens in Marsh Mills, I could, after many utterances of 'Feck Off', be out of the will.

Steve

Ps I'm a good son really.

PLANS are being drawn up to knock down a city hotel and build a £12million "out-of-town" shopping centre.

Developers who own the Legacy International Hotel at Marsh Mills, formerly run by Novotel, want to demolish the building and replace it with a four-storey block of five retail units, including a restaurant.
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Cattedown-based Wessex Investors said the scheme would create 100 construction jobs and see 50 people work in the completed stores, that's 30 more than currently employed in the hotel.

And the firm stressed the shops, which would offer "big box retail" of bulky goods such as furniture, and would not pose a threat to city centre retailers.

Wessex Investors stressed Plymouth is better served by inner city hotels, and the scheme, next to the A38, would create an eye-catching "gateway" building and "put Plymouth on the map" as a rival to Exeter for out-of-town shops.

The firm has written to 60 households living nearby inviting them, and anyone else interested, to an exhibition of the plans at the hotel tomorrow, from 10am to 3pm.

Wessex Investors hopes to submit a planning application at about the end of the year and envisages the proposed scheme, if approved, being built by 2014.

Tim Jones, operations director of Wessex Investors, said: "It's a £12million investment, non-food retail.

"It's not about losing a hotel, they are better in the centre of Plymouth.

"But here is a chance to round off the retail activity and put a gateway building there.

"It will require planning consent. We would have to prove it does not damage the city centre or any other plans for district centres, such as for Seaton Barracks.

"But there's no question there is demand for it. It's not there to compete with the city centre. The market assessment done by our agents shows a gateway site is highly desirable for the retail market. Exeter has been doing this for two years – this is our chance for Plymouth to bite back."

Mr Jones also chairs the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership, the Devon and Cornwall Business Council and Devon Economic Partnership.

Wessex Investors is a property development, investment and asset management company with £50million South West portfolio. It acquired what was then the Novotel in 2010, and later that year Legacy Hotels took over as operator of the 100-bedroom operation.

Under the new proposals, the building would be knocked down and a new building constructed, but to the western end of the site, close to the Vospers car dealership.

The Plymouth office of architects LHC, based in the Royal William Yard, has designed the proposed L-shaped building, and it is envisaged that local contractors would mostly be used during construction.

Wessex Investors spokeswoman Lucie Brailsford said shifting the building would improve views for nearby residents. The plan would also include a new path through the car park, giving residents behind the current hotel a link with the main road and its cycleway, and trees will be planted around the site.

"The new development has been designed with Marsh Close and Longbridge Road residents in mind," she said. "It's a really important site for Plymouth. Everyone coming in on the A38 passes it. We would hope anything which creates jobs in the city would be well received."

A Plymouth City Centre spokeswoman said: "We encourage potential developers to carry out consultations on their proposals before submitting a planning application."

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seadog wrote:

I hear from my West Country contacts that IKEA is coming to Marsh Mills.

In the words of my son's German girlfriend, "I fooking love Ikea"

Did they read something specific as regards Ikea, Seadog. Or just word of mouth?

Word has it IKEA have bought some land adjacent to the Novotel.

seadog wrote:

Word has it IKEA have bought some land adjacent to the Novotel.

See 3 post above

Yeah I get the link, I just wondered if there was actually something (in black and white) that had been reported, specifically naming Ikea.

Nothing written, but IKEA was specifically mentioned.