BLUEPRINTS to transform Colchester’s fire-hit Cowdray Centre with a Morrisons supermarket and more will be unveiled this autumn.

Parts of the Cowdray Avenue trade park have been out of action since a major blaze ravaged the site in 2006.

Now, planning documents reveal site owners F&C Reit and Morrisons intend to launch a public consultation this autumn on a “mixed use” development including a supermarket.

A huge swathe of land behind The Range has been earmarked as a “future development plot”.

See Thursday's Gazette for the full story,