Wind turbines could be built at Shrewsbury’s new £15 million Tesco Extra store to help power the supermarket. Wind turbines could be built at Shrewsbury’s new £15 million Tesco Extra store to help power the supermarket.It is one of a host of measures being considered by the company to ensure the massive development is environmentally friendly.

 Wind turbines could be built at Shrewsbury’s new £15 million Tesco Extra store to help power the supermarket.It is one of a host of measures being considered by the company to ensure the massive development is environmentally friendly.Tesco chiefs have confirmed that the store, on the site of the town’s former livestock market in Harlescott, will be a “green store”.

Similar supermarkets have already opened at Swansea, Wick, in Scotland and Diss, in Norfolk.

Wayne Barraball, head of development control at Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council, said talks were taking place over proposed changes to the store design, which could include building wind turbines.

A bid to install solar panels on the roof has already got the go-ahead, he said.

“What they have asked for and what we have approved recently is plans to put some solar panels on the roof of the building so they can get more borrowed light in which helps reduce their electricity consumption.

“They will power all of the tills and helps to reduce their carbon footprint.

“Wind turbines have been mentioned, but nothing has been formally submitted.”

Julian Walker-Palin, Tesco corporate affairs manager for the West Midlands, said: “We are looking to make it as environmentally friendly as possible.”

Plans for the store were approved after a U-turn by councillors who had likened it to a “posh cattle shed”.