MORE than 200 jobs could be created if plans to transform the former EMI factory in Swindon are approved.
Plans submitted to Swindon Council by Marko Self Service Wholesalers, would turn the 3.3 hectare site into a cash and carry warehouse, selling food and other goods to traders.
The site has been on the market with agents King Sturge and Co and FPD Savills since July, with a price tag of £8m.
The company, which runs a network of 28 similar warehouses nationally, also hopes to build a 350-space car park on the site.
Cash and carry warehouses serve traders, caterers and professional businesses and are not open to the public.
The warehouse would be open seven days a week.
The EMI manufacturing plant, which opened in 1985, has stood empty since it closed with the loss of 192 jobs in March last year.
Production was transferred to EMI's larger European plant in the Netherlands.
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