Wanstead’s lamented Londis, and its neighbour, the missing Midland hollowed HSBC are being redeveloped. And from being nosy it looks as if it’s all going to be one big premises. It’s a pretty large space inside – almost too big for a shop. But probably the right size for a big restaurant. Offers of intelligence are welcome in the usual manner.
nando’s
Balthazar from Covent Garden?!????
Anything bread related will suit me just fine.
Rumour is a Superdrug but I hope not
Another Poncy shop we don’t need
Nando’s!
I would like it to be a Carluccio’s.
Superdrug – FACT
no more bloody eateries or coffee shops.. I have heard a rumour that it might be a Superdrugs .. but I dont believe that.. we certainly do NOT need any more restaurants.. food shops, coffee shops or supermarkets.. Wanstead is losing its identity .. hand over fist..!!
Fingers crossed not Superdrug!
I agree. Lucy, totally unnecessary .. as its right next door to the pharmacy..x
http://www.superdrug.jobs/vacancies/vacancy_team_leader_new_store_opening_600837_31.html
Great – just what we need when we already have The Pharmacy and Boots.
Hmm. Leytonstone gets a branch of Eat17, Wanstead gets a branch of Superdrug.
Wanstead has loads of independent shops and restaurants and has attracted a number in the last few years but it isn’t realistic to assume all new joiners will all be.
I heard Eat17 from Walthamstow considered it, however because of the rent etc… They are going to Leytonstone instead in the former show shop opposite Matalan.
Superdrug will be great, the Boots we have is tiny and I have never understood why we need two dispensing Chemists so close together..
Look at it this way, they are moving into two units! That is two less empty units on the High Street.
I hardly feel gangs will hang outside of it, litter the streets (normal excuses to try and get something kicked out of Wanstead…). I will use it and it will save me travelling to Stratford to use them.
I will end with what I always end with.. If you don’t want it then talk with your feet and don’t use it.
I however feel it is welcome. More welcome than Judith and her ever changing signs that go unpunished on this site!
The Wanstead you are all trying to manufacture does not and will not exist.. Times change and I feel like it is only a handful of you clinging on to the hope that it will become a little village with independent shops.
The landlords are pricing them types of business out and the internet does not help. Even Wansteadium begs for you to use Amazon to help pay for this site for heavens sake.
Bring more chains! If it is acceptable for M&S to move into Wanstead then it is perfectly acceptable for other chains to do so also.
yes but what is needed is clothing shop… that u do not need a mortgage to shop in..!!!. NOT everyone in Wanstead is well off.
Unlikely you would get that given the rents plus Westfield so close
From personal experience I think the days of independent shops and brand new businesses on Wanstead High st are pretty much over sadly. The rents and overheads are so high that to have a high enough turnover to actually pay yourself any kind of salary is very difficult.
Ashamed to admit it, but I love Superdrug!
Taken from the planning department’s website at LB of Redbridge Reference: 17/0445
Application Type: Approved Inspector
Address: 79-81, High Street, Wanstead, London, E11 2AE
Submitted Date: 21/02/2017
Decision Date: 27/02/2017
Proposal: Proposed internal alterations and refurbishment works to an existing retail unit to create a new Superdrug retail outlet.
See more at: https://my.redbridge.gov.uk/planning#sthash.pSZuYVdb.dpuf
Wot a lot of snobs. Looks about the right size for a Poundland to me.
Rob
I hope a restaurant, we need it
Thought the old Barclays Bank was going to be Superdrug??? So what’s that going to be then
It was going to be a Sainsbury’s but they pulled out
Don’t want a Superdrug on the high street but the evidence points that way. Let’s all go into the pharmacy and give the staff hugs and unstinting loyalty.
Um no. I never shop the pharmacy — bloody rip-off prices on ordinary toiletry goods I can get cheaper elsewhere. Like, oh, Superdrug.
McDonald’s! !
We don’t need Superdrug. We have the excellent Wanstead Pharmacy already and also Boots. Superdrug branches at Leytonstone or Stratford.
Another restaurant (not a coffee shop) would have been welcome. I guess the rent has prohibited this. Shame. And another estate agent opens……
Quite frankly the pharmacy is overpriced. I never buy from there, nor from Boots; poor selection, higher prices than just using Leytonstone Tesco or Leytonstone Superdrug — seriously, Leytonstone has MORE PRACTICAL shops, thus I rarely shop Wanstead High Street and only shop Leytonstone.
I agree with the person who said what a bunch of snobs. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Superdrug and a lot of things right — their prices on the same goods are far more reasonable.
We could also do with a Poundland and there’s nothing wrong with Poundland either. There’s nothing practical on this spoilt little high street anymore, with the hipster yuppies all expecting bijou little indie places to “shop” at. There used to be a Woolworths on this high street — or is that too common for today’s Wanstead? Pathetic elitism from the new Wansteadians who replaced the real people who used to live here and were down to earth.
totally agree
Paddy got no power. Betfraud. Ladcrooks
The landlords are the ones to blame. Not the chains people..
TALK. WITH. YOUR. FEET.
I will be, I will be using Superdrug because as mentioned Wanstead Pharmacy want you to sell your organs to buy the same items for double the price. Boots selection is dire.
I am one of those folk who only uses the Ginger Pig for the free Sausage roll slices. I rely on you lot with more money than sense spending real money to keep it open.
As for a £1 shop. Bring it on!
I really dislike Superdrug but looks from planning that that’s what it’s going to be.