£50 million plans revealed for a new town centre near Sheffield

The Olive Lane site will have shops, a gym, offices, homes and a bus station

Author: Demi OlutunmogunPublished 12th Jan 2022
Last updated 12th Jan 2022

Plans for a new £50 million town centre near Sheffield have been revealed.

The Olive Lane development at Waverley is set to have shops, a gym, offices, a supermarket and bus station.

Outline planning permission for the scheme was granted back in March 2021, with images released last year:

Though there is now the question of which supermarket will be located in Olive Lane.

The council argued that Lidl should update its impact assessment ‘to consider the impact on indicative local centres at Waverley’.

“Indicative local centres at Waverley remain to be developed. No information is provided regarding the assessment of these centres,” states the objection.

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