LIVERPOOL’S biggest supermarket is to be built in Toxteth, in the largest private sector investment in the area since the riots.
Tesco has promised to offer at least half of the 500 jobs that will be created to local long-term unemployed people.
The supermarket hopes to start construction of the £30m store on the former Mecca bingo hall, in Park Road, by September.
The plans, which were approved by Liverpool’s planning committee yesterday, will also see £600,000 spent improving the local environment.
Riverside ward councillor Steve Munby said the store would provide much-needed regeneration for the area.
He said: “This is fantastic news.
“At present, the site is desolate, but now we will have 500 jobs moving into Liverpool 8 at the start of a recession.”
