MOVING Tesco’s city centre supermarket next to Northgate Village is one option in an all encompassing vision to make Chester ‘world class’ by 2027.

The final version of the One City Plan includes long term ambitions to move food retail stores at Gorse Stacks to the Northgate Arena site when the leisure centre is relocated.

But Tesco in Frodsham Street is undergoing a major refurbishment this summer so any relocation won’t happen soon.

Cllr Herbert Manley, Cheshire West and Chester Council regeneration spokesman, confirmed: “It would be some years down the tracks. These things don’t happen overnight.”

Another controversial move would be to create a park and ride on green belt land at Hoole Village, resurrecting an idea by Cheshire County Council.

A radical suggestion is to close a section of the inner ring road during the summer months and create links between amphitheatre, park and river and draw the attractions back into the heart of the city.

Other aspects are already in the pipeline such as delivering an 800-seat theatre at the former Odeon, the Northgate Development, a new conference centre at the racecourse and creating a new business quarter near the railway station.

Making more of public space is another key element with the possibility of filling in the subways at The Bars roundabout and reconfiguring the junction to create a new square.

Re-energising the Rows with a Rows hotel is another idea along with creating an artisan’s quarter in the Commonhall Street area.

Having a zoo presence in the city centre in the form of an exhibition centre could generate more visitors. Chester Renaissance chairman Steve Broomhead insists the vision – due to get council approval last night – is ‘a prioritised plan’ which will deliver and is ‘not a dream’.