Tag: Co-op

May 18th – Some things are changing, though. Up at Streets Corner, for example, work is well underway on the new Co-op store where Saturn Motor Sales had their yard. Although work has been ongoing for a while, signs have only just gone up, proclaiming the development to be complete by late 2012. This is great news for the Wood, and I look forward to having another store to compete with the Tesco Express over the road. However, with a new store up the road in Shelfield and branches opening all over the place, I do wonder if the Co-op  can maintain this period of aggressive expansion.

November 30th – The Spring Cottage, once a lively, if rather rough pub sat on a major junction in the middle of Shelfield, is undergoing conversion into a Co-op store. Nearly complete now, it looks like only the car park resurfacing needs to be completed. I’m pleased to say that although the building is of no historical merit, efforts have been made to preserve it’s features as a prominent landmark. The wood and plaster cladding has been carefully restored, and the shopfront installed sympathetically to the nature of the building.

It’s nice to see such a prominent, once-derelict landmark get a new lease of life – and the Co-op stores aren’t bad at all. I wish the owners well.

June 24th – The former Spring Cottage pub at Shelfield – an insalubrious, rough pub – closed a year of two back, and has stood empty and forlorn ever since. Never a pleasant house, it’s future lies in a different purpose. Speaking to a surveyor here in the week, I’m told this is being converted into a Co-op store. I like the Co-op, and it seems to be a sensible location.

Work has been ongoing here for some time, and looks set to continue for a good while yet.