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A spate of planning applications across Hull, including a major retail park extension, a number of housing developments and a 26,500 sq ft supermarket, are set to be decided on this week.Hull City Council will meet on Wednesday (2 November) having been recommended to both approve and refuse a variety of proposals.The largest application to be discussed is the £32m expansion to the Kingswood District Centre on land North of Ashcombe Road.Drawn up by Kingswood Devco, the scheme would comprise 120,000 sq ft of space across ten units.Should the proposal be given the green light, about 200-250 jobs would be created upon completion. A number of roles would also need to be filled during the construction period.A planning statement submitted to Hull City Council said the extension would attract new retailers.The second largest scheme is the erection of a Lidl store on Brighton Street.If approved, the supermarket would comprise 151 parking spaces and employ 20 full-time and 20 part-time staff.A planning statement submitted by Lidl said the store would bring with it a number of benefits, including inward investment into the Hessle Road area; addressing a need for improved retail provision; redeveloping of a brownfield site, and employment opportunities.Hull City Council has been recommended to approve the scheme.Meanwhile, there are a number of housing schemes set to be decided on.The first is to build 82 homes (pictured above) on the site of the former David Lister School, which opened in 1964 but was demolished in 2013.Also proposed is the conversion of the former Newland Avenue Primary School on Newland Avenue to provide 24 self-contained flats and two semi-detached dwellings. Included in the scheme is the erection eight new homes.A smaller development of 20 homes on Richmond Lane is also up for discussion. All three of these applications are recommended for approval.Elsewhere, plans to build 83 homes on land comprising former railway embankments are earmarked for refusal.The railway line closed in 1961 and the bridge over Calvert Lane that connected the railway line to the west and beyond was removed in 2009.Hull City Council has been recommended to refuse the scheme as it would result in the “irreplaceable loss of designated urban greenspace”.