It’s important that retailers are involved in the planning and development of bulky goods retail premises to ensure the best outcomes for everyone involved.

Important planning considerations include:

A large, flat site to accommodate a large format building, on-site parking, vehicular access for both customer and delivery, and landscaping

Good site exposure to passing traffic with location on a major arterial road or with convenient access to the major arterial road network

Affordable and sustainable rents in line with the retailers’ business strategies to permit the display and storage of large items

A suitably designed site and building that safely accommodates the delivery of stock by large commercial vehicles and the loading/collection of bulky goods by customers

A site which can conveniently and safely accommodate up to 40 trucks and semi-trailers per retailer per day

A customer car parking ratio of at least 3 spaces per 100 square metres of floor space

Suitably located premises to serve a wide regional catchment of over 100,000 residents, with some of the larger stores requiring catchments of 150,000 plus

Co-location with other bulky goods retailers

A considered mix of tenants that promotes the long-term success of the development