The project plans include areas for shops, restaurants, cafés and social spaces, indoor padel courts and 4G sports pitches, a gym and wellness centre, a care home, a garden centre, and flexible-use community facilities.
M&S, B&M Bargains and Lidl already have interest in the scheme proposed by ARC Commercial Development Ltd, who describe their vision of the mixed use project as a 'high-quality, landscape-led destination’.
To submit your views on the plans before they go as a formal planning application to Bassetlaw Council, visit:
https://www.retfordnortherngateway.co.uk/ and complete the short consultation survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3792WBR
The consultation closes on August 23, 2026.
1. Retford Northern Gateway Park
An artist's impression of the proposed development from North Road, Retford. Photo: UKSD Architects, Planning and Development
2. Retford Northern Gateway Park
How different areas within the project should take form, with the gym, wellness and restaurant areas bottom left, a football pitch and clubhouse bottom right, and padel courts and clubhouse above. Photo: UKSD Architects, Planning and Development
3. Retford Northern Gateway Park
An artist's impression of the garden centre and food store, bottom left, car patking and individual retail outlet bottom right, and a main retail area at the top. Photo: UKSD Architects, Planning and Development
4. Retford Northern Gateway Park
Here the artist has depicted the sports campus at top, with the club house and football pitch bottom left and padel courts and clubhouse bottom right. Photo: UKSD Architects, Planning and Development