A NEW Marks and Spencers food store and a BP petrol station have opened on a busy roundabout costing more than £2 million.

It has been built at the junction with Burnham Road, Ferrers Road and Willow Grove, South Woodham Ferrers.

Excited residents have taken to social media to express their joy at the new store.

The joint BP and Marks & Spencer development will offer motorists a wide range of M&S quality food alongside BP’s own Wild Bean Café drinks and hot food.

A total of £2.3 million was spent on the site.

The site will be open late and the facilities will include an accessible toilet as well as a baby changing facility

Adam Whitehouse, BP district manager said: “The new store and introduction of the M&S Simply Food range will be open late providing customers with a selected range of Marks & Spencer’s high quality fresh, innovative food alongside the best of BP fuels and our very own Wild Bean Café.”