Detailed plans for Scotland’s first joint Tesco supermarket and Dobbies garden centre in East Kilbride, Glasgow, were given the green light this week.

The massive new development at Peel Park will bring over 400 jobs to the town, with recruitment taking place locally.

The site already had planning permission for a stand-alone supermarket and a garden centre but the proposals which went before South Lanarkshire Council’s planning committee are the first of their kind in the country.

It will see a Tesco superstore, a petrol station, a Dobbies garden centre, incorporating a restaurant and cafe, farm foodhall, poly tunnels, cold house and external sales/display/demonstration areas.

The stores will be linked with a central atrium entrance foyer which contains the garden centre restaurant.

There will be 948 car parking spaces in total for the two stores.