A BLUEPRINT for a new DIY store in Morecambe has been thrown out - because planners say there is little need for it.

An outline application for a B&Q superstore with restaurant with parking spaces at the former Moll Industries site on Northgate, White Lund, was rejected on Monday.

The council received a petition in which 15 people complained that the estate is not a retail area and that small local businesses would lose out.

City council's planners recommended the development, lodged by City Link Holman on behalf of B&Q, be refused.

They said: "The store would be an out-of-centre location which would encourage shoppers to make a greater number of journeys by private car to an area which is not well served by means of access."