An Oswestry company which has submitted plans for a multi-million pound supermarket and cinema complex at its current premises, has secured a site to relocate to in the town.

Richard Burbidge has submitted plans to build a Tesco foodstore and Reel cinema on its existing Whittington Road site.

But as one of the town’s biggest employers, bosses vowed to relocate within the town if the plans got the go-ahead.

Today they revealed they had secured a site, but are remaining tight-lipped over its location.

Bosses at Richard Burbidge say it has been a long search “frustrated by the lack of available employment land in Oswestry and potential future employment land being controlled by developers and speculators”.

But the new site is big enough to accommodate all the existing Oswestry operations and facilities, and can be delivered in a short time period, they added.

Richard Burbidge is currently unable to commit to the move as the relocation rests on whether planning consent is given for the redevelopment of its existing site. The existing owners have called for a confidentiality agreement.

Peter Vernon, of Richard Burbidge’s development consultants, Vernon & Co, said: “Not only do we feel this is the closest available and suitable site to the town centre, but it is also the most deliverable.”