Saunders Partnership Architects were appointed by Property Alliance Group, on the former site of Carlisle Interconnect Technologies in Littleborough.

The Saunders Partnership scheme has had consent granted by Rochdale Council for a 24,000 sq ft food store on the site.

The store has been designed to incorporate local materials, with a feature walkway and improvements to local footpaths to promote connectivity and link the store to the centre of Littleborough to encourage shoppers to explore other independent businesses within the village centre.

The foodstore development will, in turn, cross-fund the relocation of Carlisle IT to a larger, more modern facility elsewhere in Rochdale, safeguarding existing highly-skilled manufacturing jobs and enabling the business to achieve its ambitious future growth targets.