In an £1.8 million project Pennells Garden Centres are taking the next step to become the destination garden centre in Lincolnshire by extending their centre at Lincoln.

From its humble start back in 1971 when the centre covered as little as 125sqm it will bloom to be a multi department garden centre.

Once completed the extended centre will include a food hall featuring an award winning butcher, a wider range of gifts and a covered outside plant sales area so customers can shop whatever the weather is doing!

The centre will also be extending its popular restaurant making it one of the largest restaurants in a garden centre in the country. The restaurant extension will have multiple uses as it will be used for talks and demonstrations throughout the year.

The number of free parking spaces will be increased by approximately 100 plus additional disability parking bays.

The main contractor for the extension is Maher Millard and the architect is Evolution Design.

Chairman  Richard Pennell said, ‘The development of the centre is very exciting for us and will provide an improved shopping experience for our customers with a wider range of products. However the heart of the business will continue to be our love of plants, gardens and gardeners!”

"We've had to move our planteria around to the front car park to allow for the works to progress without any disruption to all of our retailing space and restaurant.  Christmas will be in the old "new shop" again this year and then we'll be looking forward to using the expanded retail space in 2015."