THE new owners of Navan Shopping Centre have sought planning permission for an additional 35,000 square feet of retail space. The development will include a further 11,000 square feet for Dunnes Store's drapery and 7,000 square feet for a Quinnsworth store.beside Penneys. The owners are also to lodge a planning application shortly for a 500-space multi-storey car-park and a six-screen multiplex cinema. Since the shopping centre changed hands in August, 1995, the owners have developed and let six large new shops. They have also provided an additional 150 car-parking spaces. Quinnsworth, the food anchor tenants, are building a 7,500-square-foot extension, which will open in July.

The centre, which is acknowledged as one of the busiest in the country, was developed in 1980 by Phillip Monahan's Monarch group and had an initial size of 95,000 square feet. When the extensions come on stream, the centre will have been increased in size by more than 50 per cent.