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Retail giant targets town return after six years

Next operated a store in the town centre of Dumfries for more than three decades.

However, it said that the site in a shopping centre no longer suited its business needs and sought to move to Cuckoo Bridge.

A bid to get conditions lifted in order to allow that to happen ultimately failed when the Scottish government ruled a store could find “suitable and available” accommodation in the town centre.

That decision prompted Next not to renew its Loreburne Centre lease and leave the town.

The company has since opened a click-and-collect pod at Cuckoo Bridge but it has “remained keen” to return with a full-scale store with its closest alternative sites in Gretna, which is 24 miles away.

Now it is hoping the council will agree to lift planning conditions designed to protect the town centre in order to allow it to operate at an out-of-town site.


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