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News you can trust since 1948 × search Custom Search Sort by: Relevance Relevance Date Sign in Welcome backEdit Account-Sign Out My AccountSign Out Subscribe NationalWorldTV * 'Cowardly' Peterborough burglar used wheelie bin to steal thousands of pounds of renovation tools and equipment * Peterborough teenager to enter Crufts with beloved rescue dog who was a day away from death * News * Latest * Traffic and Travel * Crime * Weather * Politics * Ukraine * Business * Education * Health * Opinion * People * Read This * Posh * Darragh MacAnthony * Sport * Peterborough Sports * Football * Cricket * Ice Hockey * Speedway * Other Sport * Homes & Gardens * What's On * Arts and Entertainment * Things To Do * Submit Your Story * Retro * Lifestyle * Food and Drink * Cars * Homes and Gardens * Pets * Public Notices * Advertise My Business * Free Happy Ads People NEW OWNER OF PETERBOROUGH ONE RETAIL PARK PROMISES MULTI-MILLION POUND TRANSFORMATION Deli bar and farm shop among new attractions By Paul Grinnell 3 minutes ago - 3 min read A garden centre and retail park in Peterborough is to undergo a multi-million pound transformation after being sold to new owners. The Peterborough One Retail Park, in Eye Road, has been bought by the national garden centre group Blue Diamond for £27 million. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Alan Roper, managing director of Blue Diamond, said the company was planning to invest a further £3 million in the site which would see an array of ‘aspirational’ attractions in the garden centre and some new retailers move into adjoining units. The Van Hage garden centre and Peterborough One Retail Park have been sold to Blue Diamond. Most Popular * 1 Anglian Water hands out bottled water and is sorry to residents on flooded Peterborough street * 2 Market Deeping curry house fined £2,500 for serious food hygiene standard breaches He said that kitchen and homewares retailer Lakeland had confirmed its intention to move on to the park. Investment in the garden centre is expected to see the number of staff rise from about 30 to 100 plus with new attractions including an Eat Right deli bar, where the food is fresh and cooked on site by qualified chefs, and the sale of locally grown produce through its farm shop, Local Larder. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Sponsored Links Recommended by Blue Diamond also has its own nursery where it grows millions of pounds worth of plants in recyclable pots, using peat-free compost. It plans to encourage local growers to get in touch. Mr Roper said: “Peterborough has grown quite a lot over the last 20 years and continues to do so but I always felt it didn't really have a quality garden centre offer. Alan Roper, managing director of Blue Diamond. "I felt Peterborough would appreciate a Blue Diamond garden centre, we’ve been awarded the Best Value Garden Centre, so we’re not expensive but we do trade with a degree of authority and aspiration in plants. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad He said "The PE1 site appears to have been in the doldrums and had a sense of neglect for the best part of 12 years. "I want to provide a quality offer in what we do and I want the people who trade alongside us on the site to also offer a quality proposition. "We don’t put concessions inside the garden centre because we operate everything inside, including the two restaurants, ourselves. A Blue Diamond operated garden centre. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad "There are a lot of interesting people on site, like a dance studio, Inflata Nation, a mother and baby outlet, all those things around a leisure activity, I am happy for them to stay. "Operators that offer something for families and children such as dancing lessons, gym, family entertainment and learning for children are important to keep. Where we need to, we will make changes. Mr Roper said: “We not a corporate group that just has a standard offer and is rather flat and uninspiring. We are more aspirational and more organic in how we think. “It will be completely different to what went before and I believe Peterborough will support that - but it will be a challenge to take that rather horrible PE1 and transform into something else." Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The interior of a Blue Diamond garden centre. Mr Roper said Blue Diamond had bought the Peterborough site in November but it would take time to make necessary changes and it was hoped to have an official launch by Easter when the name will be changed to Blue Diamond Garden and Home. Blue Diamond is also preparing to unveil a partnership with the National Trust, in which it has developed products for the trust with 10 per cent of the price going to the trust. 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