Popular coffee company 'Starbucks' set to land in Mansfield shopping centre

Announcing the global coffee chain’s arrival, a spokeswoman for the town centre shopping mall said: “We are so excited to finally be able to confirm Starbucks is opening very soon at Four Seasons.

“We’ve been struggling to keep this one quiet.”

The news has been welcomed by civic leaders.

Coun Ben Bradley, Mansfield MP, Nottinghamshire Council leader and member for Mansfield North, said: “Positive news and positive signs that major businesses are investing in Mansfield.”

And a Mansfield Council spokesman said it was “great” to see another business “investing in the heart” of Mansfield's town centre.

Mansfield Business Improvement District, which works to support businesses in the town centre, also welcomed the news.

Sue Rogers, BID operations and marketing manager, said: “Brilliant news, great for the town.”

The news has been broadly welcomed by shoppers – although some questioned the need for it in a town with a number of thriving independent coffee shops already.

Karena Pope, commenting on fb.com/fourseasonsshopping, said: “I am so excited.”

Claire Vann said: “At last. We have a decent coffee supplier.”

Plans for signage and advertising associated with the new Starbucks outlet have now been granted conditional permission by the council, the local planning authority.

A planning statement accompanying the application said: “The development relates to the internal fit-out of the existing ground-floor commercial retail space and involves the removal of all existing commercial fit-out, walls, doors and floor and ceiling finishes and installation of all new walls, doors, ceiling, flooring, lighting, mechanical and electrical and fixtures and fittings to create a new Starbucks coffee store.

“The proposed works will retain the existing external appearance completely as existing with the addition of new external signage, with the consent to display advertisements.”

The plans reveal the store will be located in a unit on West Gate, previously occupied by Thomas Cook travel agents – Thomas Cook collapsed into administration in 2019 – next door to family jewellers F Hinds and close to Mansfield Library and the entrance to the shopping centre.

For more information about the shopping centre, visit fourseasonsshopping.co.uk

Starbucks already has outlets at Center Parcs in Sherwood Forest, East Midlands Designer Outlet at South Normanton and a newly opened branch in the former Plug & Feathers pub in Glapwell.