Flagship store of 'world-respected' retailer planned for York

The empty Smiggle store in Coney Street, York, which is subject to plans for a Royal Mile Whiskies store (Image: LDRS)

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Search the Public Notice Portal A RETAILER is planning to open its flagship store in England in York.

Plans have been lodged with City of York Council to install signs for alcohol sellers Royal Mile Whiskies on an empty building in Coney Street.

A previous related licensing application from Scottish firm Dormant Distillery Company stated the planned York site would serve as its leading store in England.

It comes as works on the unit, which previously housed the Smiggle children’s stationary and accessories store, was underway during the week starting Monday, August 17.

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The store closed in June last year.

The window for people to comment on the licensing application closed on Friday, July 10.

Dormant Distillery Company proposed opening hours of 10am to 10pm daily in the application.

It stated: “The application is for a world respected independent whisky retailer, opening its flagship store for England in York.”

The planning application to install signs featuring Royal Mile Whiskies branding is yet to be decided.

The Dormant Distillery Company is based in Perth, Scotland, and is part of the Vintage Saga group which acquired it and the various brands it owns in 2022.

Dormant owns Royal Mile Whiskies which launched with the opening of a shop in the street of the same name in Edinburgh’s old town in 1991.

It launched a website in 2000 which has gone on to sell whiskies to customers globally and also has a store in St Andrews.

The empty Smiggle store in Coney Street, York, which is subject to plans for a Royal Mile Whiskies store

(Image: LDRS)

Royal Mile won Whisky Magazine’s Retailer of the Year award in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015.

They also won Online Retailer of the Year in 2020.

Owners Dormant Distillery Company started as a retailer and occasional bottler in 1997.

The firm specialises in selling whiskies, particularly Scottish single malt whisky, and has released its own limited edition products under both the Royal Mile and Dormant names.

The latter produced a series of independent single cask releases from 1997 to 2007 each of which was from a dormant Scottish distillery.

The Dormant Distillery Company also owns the Cigarbox store in Edinburgh and the Drinkmonger shops, also in the Scottish capital and Pitlochry.