SUPERMARKET bosses have revealed the full details of their plans for a massive new town centre store.

As reported in Friday's BEN, Sainsbury's have submitted a proposal to Bolton Council which would see them relocate from Moor Lane to the Hick Hargreaves site on Crook Street and the engineering firm move elsewhere in Bolton.

The whole store site would cover 78,825 square feet, with 50,000 square feet of sales space, and a 2,800 square feet restaurant.

The store giants have included 474 car parking spaces and drawn up plans for a new access road on Trinity Street, just before the junction with Blackhorse Street.

A petrol filling station is also included on the site.

As already reported, Sainsbury's have joined forces with Hick Hargreaves to put forward the plans.

The partnership says that relocating the store will create 200 extra jobs at the new supermarket and safeguard the existing 140 jobs at the engineering firm by moving that to a more suitable location in Bolton.

They also say that the existing Moor Lane supermarket site could be used as part of a proposed new "family quarter" featuring an improved Water Place, cinema, hotel and other facilities.

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