Peel submits plans for five leisure units on Speke business park

PEEL Group’s land and property arm has submitted a planning application to build five new dining outlets on its Boulevard Business and Leisure park in Speke which it said will create 100 new jobs.

All five units are proposed for a site next to the new Dobbies Garden World development and will comprise of one pub/restaurant, two family restaurants, a fast-food drive-thru and a coffee drive-thru outlet.

Peel said that three of the units are already under offer to national operators and if planning is approved it will add significantly to the employment being created on the site once the Dobbies Centre opens in September.

Roger Wheeldon, senior development director at Peel, said: “The proposed scheme will serve the substantial business community in the area which is currently poorly served by modern places to eat and meet.

“These new jobs and those created at Dobbies will make Boulevard Business and Leisure Park a major employer in the area and Peel hopes that the Council will support the plans.

“If consent is granted, building work will be able to start in early 2012.”