Up to five new shops and a drive-thru café planned for fire-hit store site in York

Plans have been revealed to create up to five shops and a café on the site of a York store destroyed by fire.

Developers want to build five units and a drive-thru Starbucks where the former B&M branch stood at Clifton Moor.

It was gutted in a huge fire three years ago this week. The charred remains of the building were then demolished, leaving nothing but the concrete floor.

In April, Harrogate-based Marrtree Investments revealed it had purchased the site – and were planning a development ‘York can be proud of’.

Now they have submitted an application to City of York Council, detailing their plans.

They want to build two separate blocks, each accessed from Stirling Road, containing five units for shops, general industrial or warehousing purposes. There would be 65 car parking spaces.

“The proposal seeks to provide a terrace of employment units of various sizes, and a drive through café unit,” planning documents state.

And the development “will positively contribute not only to the immediate surroundings but also to its wider context in terms of readdressing the loss of business use in the area, creating local employment opportunities and introducing energy efficient buildings that will reduce impact on the environment.”

Marrtree says the finished project could create 100 jobs.

B&M eventually opened another Clifton Moor store a short distance away from the one that burned down.

Find out more about the planning application here.