Windlebridge Garden Nursery, Guisborough: Popular family-run garden centre in Yorkshire set to extend its tearooms

A family-run garden centre could create new jobs having been granted planning permission to grow bigger.

Windlebridge Garden Nursery, in Middlesbrough Road, Guisborough, successfully sought consent from Redcar and Cleveland Council to extend its nursery with the plans including the demolition of two outbuildings and alterations to a car park, adding seven new spaces.

An application submitted to the council proposed there would be eight full-time equivalent jobs, along with 12 part-time ones.

Pyramid Architectural Designs, which has drawn up the plans, said in a Facebook post that the garden centre would undergo a “fantastic transformation”.

It said changes would include a steel-framed extension to replace old storage buildings, a new florist shop at the front section and new improved parking facilities and toilets.

A cantilevered roof would add an “intriguing design element”, while there would be large, open windows to “flood the space with natural light”.

The manager of the family-run gardening centre, Adam Jackson said there was no start date as yet and it was seeking quotes to carry out the work required.

The extension is intended to provide more modern facilities, he said.

Mr Jackson said: “It will help expand our product range and also further extend the tearooms we have.”

He added that the business also owned The Flower Box florists in Guisborough and Stokesley and the intention was to add another outlet on site.

In granting permission, a council planning officer’s report said the garden centre had been operating for more than 20 years in the area.

It said the proposed scale and design of the extension would respect the character and appearance of the existing site and not detract from the appearance of the wider area.