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Specsavers to open Urmston branch

SPECSAVERS, the UK’s leading opticians, is opening a new branch in Urmston on 4 March.

The store, which will be located on Eden Square, will be run by Steven Dare and Kevin Liu, who currently head up the Sale & Altrincham branches, and Tom Crowther. The three directors have more than 25 years of optical experience between them.

The new store is set to bring 7 jobs to the local community and represents a £400,000 investment into Urmston’s healthcare provision.

Optical equipment will include an advanced eye scanning system, The Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) machine, which is usually found in hospital eye departments. The OCT machine can detect eye conditions including glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration.

The new store, which will be open seven days a week, will boast two state-of-the-art test rooms, with a capacity to grow over time, complete with a specialist audiology centre, which will be available two days a week. To meet customer demand, the store has ambitious plans to expand its hearing service.

To mark the opening of the new store, the Specsavers Urmston team will be hosting an in-store family fun day on Saturday 16 March.

Steven Dare, store director, says: ‘We’ve been looking after the eye care needs of the Sale & Altrincham communities for the last 4 years, so it’s fantastic that we can extend this service to another location.

‘Current Specsavers Sale & Altrincham customers will recognise a few friendly faces if they visit us in Urmston, and we also look forward to welcoming new customers. Our team has a wealth of experience and knowledge and will certainly be able to deliver a fantastic service that Greater Manchester has come to expect from Specsavers.’

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Katie Rattigan .