The five-acre development will provide 200,000 sf of retail and leisure space to create a new leisure quarter in the town centre. There will be 40,000 sf of retail and 50,000 sf of restaurant/A3 space. It will also include a 36,000-sf 11-screen multiplex cinema, a 25,000-sf health & fitness club and a 30,000-sf live entertainment venue, alongside 36 residential dwellings and a 350-space multi-storey car park.

The site already has outline planning consent, granted in 1999. A number of key tenants have agreed pre-lets on the scheme including Cine-UK and Cannons, the health & fitness club operator.

Salmon Harvester director Doug Stewart said: 'A detailed planning application will be made within the next three months and given a successful outcome, construction will start in late 2002 with completion a year later.'