Rotherham or Barnsley, postal address is Barnsley but there's a welcome to Rotherham sign at the entrance to Cortonwood, l think that's their council trying to claim it back..
Cortonwood is definitely in Rotherham. The rates are paid to Rotherham council and any plans are submitted to Rotherham Council. The postal address is Barnsley and the postcode is S73 hence a lot of the confusion. Most of the retailers label their Cortonwood stores as ‘Barnsley’ or ‘Barnsley Cortonwood’. The main access road into the retail park is in Barnsley, however. When Morrisons opened they incorrectly invited the mayor of Barnsley to cut the ribbon or something like that. I know the former Wilko is being split into two smaller stores. Unsure if Hotel Chocolat will be one of those.
No - Cortonwood. Most of the Alhambra is going to be NHS. BPL are also opening a gym in there. As far as I’m aware there won’t be any retail upstairs.
Any news on the boom bar unit? Seems a strange decision for for bpl to be opening a gym in the Alhambra instead of in the unit that they originally wanted a gym in.
I don’t know if it’ll be a commercial gym or whether it’ll be used for more physio/recovery type activity. It ties in with the health on the high street initiative. I believe BPL were approached about the unit above JD quite early on in the glassworks development and they weren’t interested.
