Supermarket learning centre approved

PLANNING chiefs at Warrington have given the go-ahead for a learning centre alongside a new supermarket.
The development in Moran Drive, Chapelford, will involve knocking two new shops into one and will mean there will not, as had been hoped, be a chemist on the site.
Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd were granted amendments to conditions originally imposed on the development to allow an Explore Learning Centre to open on the site.
This will provide 20 jobs – including three full time ones.
The centre will provide training in maths and English on a “drop in” basis with parents able to leave their children there for sessions of up to an hour and-a-quarter without any requirement to book in advance.
A supermarket and four additional shops have been built to serve the expanding Chapelford urban village area.
Two of the shops have been let and the other two will be knocked into one to provide accommodation for the learning centre.
Currently there are more than 60 Explore Learning Centres across the country – most of them in or next to Sainsbury supermarkets.
The organisation says its pupils are taught by tutors in groups of no more than six and that they can make a year’s progress in six months.