Revamped plans for a new Spar convenience store have been submitted after the original scheme was rejected over road safety concerns. The proposals could see a new shop built on the site of the vacant Lake Garage, in Littleborough, Rochdale - bringing 30 new jobs to the area.Initial plans for the Smithy Bridge Road plot were turned down by the council - and later dismissed at appeal - on the grounds they would be ‘detrimental to highway safety for all users of the highway, including the visually impaired’. However applicant James Hall & Co Ltd says that these have been ‘thoroughly addressed’ by the new scheme which boasts ‘a revised store design and site layout’.“The current proposal is significantly different to the original proposal in that it prioritises pedestrian movement both within and adjacent to the site along Smithy Bridge Road,” planning papers add. This includes reducing the number of access points from three to one, a dedicated pedestrian route to the store entrance and the use of tactile paving.