Plans for a new Tesco store in Annan have been recommended for refusal by Dumfries and Galloway Council.

Tesco had planned to build a superstore on land adjacent to Stapleton Road and Scott's Street however councillors argued the supermarket firm had not shown they had properly considered sites closer to the town centre.

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Councillors then recommended plans by regeneration group Katalyst to see a building demolished and new superstore constructed on Scott's Street.

Tesco Scottish Corporate Affairs Manager Doug Wilson said: "The Tesco and Katalyst sites are neighbouring out-of-centre locations, with little to chose between them," he said.

"If there is no operator to take a supermarket project forward, it is clear that, if approved, Annan will be left to suffer retail leakage for the foreseeable future."

(GK/JM)