The outline planning application is for land off Girnhill Lane and Wakefield Road – where supermarket chain Lidl also submitted proposals for a store on part of the site, but its plans were deferred in February.
Lidl's plans were postponed, then lat
er withdrawn, for highways, access and servicing arrangements to be discussed and a council spokesman said
the plans were due to go before the committee again next month.
Featherstone residents and community leaders say the town desperately needs a supermarket since Kwik Save closed in 2007 and hundreds of people have joined an internet campaign to fight for one.
Netto Foodstore Ltd's application says the firm investigated opportunities to "provide a store to meet the needs of local residents" after Kwik Save shut and then bought a house on the Girnhill Lane site.
It says the application is significantly different from Lidl's because
owning the house gives a different access route for a store.
The application adds: "This was and is considered essential to providing an appropriate and safe highway access to the application site.
"It is apparent from the consideration by officers and members of (the
Lidl) application as set out in our reports that there are significant flaws with that application in terms of highways safety."
Netto's application – which also includes car parking spaces, landscaping and highways works – also says that local jobs will be created if the plans are approved.
Plans to develop the old Kwik Save site, off Wilson Street, into two
retail sites have been withdrawn but are expected to be resubmitted.
A council spokesman said the plans had not yet been handed back in.
