Starts 9th January
1. Visit www.tesco-careers.com
2. Once on the website, look on the right for a hyperlink called ‘Find out about working in store’ and click on it
3. Under ‘Search’, type ‘Yardley’
4. You should now see the job adverts specific to the Yardley store
5. After reading the job advert and terms click on the ‘Apply Now’ link towards the bottom of the page to enter the questionnaire part
6. You will now have to answer some questions as part of your application
A) For each advert you must read the criteria around Shift Patterns and Flexible Working before applying. Clients should only apply if they can work to the criteria as stated within the advert
B) The online questionnaire is a screening process and clients will be required to achieve a high mark before they are selected to attend an interview
TESCO GIVEN GREEN LIGHT FOR YARDLEY SWAN CENTRE
Tesco is preparing to restart activity at Yardley after being given the green light from the Secretary of State on a CPO inquiry that has held up the scheme.
Following the decision Tesco is now in a position to complete the neccessary land assembly of the site and to prepare for construction work on the scheme, which includes and 80,000sq ft Tesco Extra store, creating around 500 full and part time jobs.
The next stage in the process will be include tendering for a main contractor to be appointed for the construction phase.
Tony Fletcher, corporate affairs manager for Tesco, said: "Now that the period of appeal is over, we can concentrate on completing the remaining land aquisition required for the scheme and move forward with bringing the new store and retail offering to fruition.
"We are aware that the hold-up has caused much frustration to local residents so we are delighted to be able to restart the programme in order to begin construction as soon as possible."
The multi-million pound development will bring a total of 150,000sq ft of retail space to Yardley, including a precinct of new shops.
The new scheme will also see improvements to the road layout around the Swan Centre, as well as providing car parking space for locla residents - and 700 spaces for shoppers. Extra security will also be provided with a car park managements team and the installation of CCTV cameras.
Project officials hope that construction of the new store can begin later this summer
John Hemming said, "I am pleased that we now restart the development. The people of Yardley have been waiting almost a decade for this project. We supported tesco against Sainsbury because they didn't encroach on Oakland Park and offered a substantial multi million pound dowry for the local park as well as regenerating The Swan Shopping Centre."
"The people of Bakeman House particularly have had to spend too much tiem living in a partial development and I am sure they are particularly will join Dave Willis, Daphne Gaved, Dave Osborne, im Whorwood and myself in welcoming the next steps of this project."
"Yardley does need more jobs and this will provide many jobs bothe during the development and when the centre opens in 2011."
From: McFarland, Jane
To: John Hemming
Cc: Julia Willoughby ; Fletcher, Tony
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 3:25 PM
Subject: RE: When might things start again
John
Apologies for the delay in responding to you as I have only recently returned from holiday.
Now that Birmingham City Council have approved our recent planning application, seeking minor revisions to the scheme, we are expecting Board approval to proceed at the beginning of October. On the basis that this is approved work will start on site in November relating to the Highways and service diversions. The main contract would commence in Spring 2011 with a planned completion and opening of the new scheme in Feb/ March 20112.
Kind regards
Jane McFarland
Development Manager
Spenhill Regeneration Ltd
