A major high-street brand has included three Norfolk spots on a list of places where it would consider opening new stores.

Marks & Spencer has scoured locations across the country to find areas that would be suitable for future shop openings.

Its criteria require a more than two-acre site that could fit a 21,500-square-foot store in a "highly prominent and visible location".The M&S in Rampant Horse Street in NorwichThe M&S in Rampant Horse Street in Norwich (Image: Antony Kelly) The firm is focusing its search on areas slightly outside cities and towns with access to a major road and space for a car park with at least 150 spots.

The potential locations in Norfolk are Holt, Cringleford and north Norfolk. 

A spokesman for M&S said: “As part of our store rotation programme, we are always looking at potential new sites to make sure M&S has the right stores, in the right place, with the right space.”

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The high street staple has also made more concrete plans for a new store to open at Broadland Gate business park in Postwick.

The supermarket has submitted planning permissions to develop the store on a disused parcel of land.