Plans for a new Tesco superstore and garden centre have emerged for St Oswald’s Retail Park in Gloucester but there are doubts the supermarket giants would build a Dobbies store on the site.

Tesco is planning to build a new store to replace the existing one (pictured above) – but it will focus more on food rather than household items that compete with the city centre’s shops.

Dobbies is also being touted for the site, which would be lined with an avenue of trees, but Tesco haven't confirmed that this would be the case.

The petrol station would be moved to the front of the site and there would be a bigger car park. Much of the site adjacent to the current store is an overgrown wasteland at present.

Plans are being drawn up that are radically different to the ones that were granted permission two years ago, for a £25million megastore to replace the existing one.

Tesco have said any plans were still ‘months away’ but city councillors will discuss land issues surrounding the site at a private meeting next week.

City councillor Paul Toleman (C, Westgate) spoke to residents at St Oswald’s Retirement Village last week about what was coming.

Mr Toleman said: “We found out that they were thinking to change their previous plans. It is still early days yet but we went to meet residents to keep them in the loop.

“The store won’t be as big as they previously wanted. There has been a lot of contention with the size of Tesco and the problems it creates for the city centre, but this could resolve that and there are other plans for the site.”

A garden centre would not compete with central shops, city council leader Paul James said. He added: “We want something that isn’t going to compete with the city centre and is in keeping with the type of bulky goods being sold at St Oswald’s already.

“Tesco have had a very public change in their strategy and it is no longer so much about bigger stores but they are going back to concentrating on their core business.”