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Lidl would like to open a new local foodstore at the former St Luke’s Hospital site off Blackmoorfoot Road in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield.
A new Lidl store on this site would serve the growing local community and provide increased shopping choice at Lidl’s low prices to help with the rising cost of living. This project would create up to 40 new local jobs and. This proposed Lidl store would serve the existing and growing community around Blackmoorfoot Road.
Lidl is preparing to submit a planning application to Kirklees Council and we would like to know what the community thinks of the plans. To complete our survey please click here.
If you have any questions about the proposals, please email lidlcroslandmoor@new-stores.co.uk or call 0800 089 0361.
A similar Lidl store The proposed development site is located at the corner where Blackmoorfoot Road meets Turnstone Way in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield. The site is adjacent to the Avant Homes ‘Fitzwilliam Grange’ housing development at the former St Luke’s Hospital site.
The site would be ideally located for Crosland Moor residents to access Lidl’s high-quality produce at low prices, as well as serve the growing local community.
Maps Data: Google, ©2022 Getmapping, Infoterra Ltd & Bluesky, Maxar Technologies, The GeoInformation Group Lidl’s proposals include:
A new Lidl store to the latest specification with a 1,241 sqm sales area, including modern in-store facilities like Lidl’s popular bakery and customer toilets
Vehicle access from Turnstone Way, off Blackmoorfoot Road, with further pedestrian step entrance off Blackmoorfoot Road
90 parking spaces, including accessible spaces and parent and child spaces, as well as cycling spaces
Enhanced environmental features, including two Electric Vehicle Charging spaces (with capacity for more) and solar (photovoltaic) panels on the roof. Lidl has an ongoing commitment to enhance the sustainability of its existing and new stores
Around 40 jobs for local people including full and part-time roles, all paid at least at Lidl’s competitive £10.90 per hour starting pay
Landscaping across the site including tree planting and soft landscaping
Since establishing itself in Great Britain in 1994, Lidl GB has experienced continuous growth and today has over 28,000 employees, over 950 stores and 13 distribution centres in England, Scotland and Wales.
The supermarket takes pride in providing its customers with the highest quality products at the lowest possible prices throughout Great Britain. Social responsibility and sustainability are at the core of the company’s daily operations, with the company placing a strong emphasis on its responsibility for people, society, and the environment. Lidl GB is passionate about working with British producers and sources two thirds of its products from British suppliers.
Lidl first opened its doors in Great Britain in 1994 and currently has over 28,000 employees, over 950 stores and 13 distribution centres in England, Scotland and Wales. Lidl takes pride in providing top quality products at low prices.
The Lidl retail philosophy is focused on simplicity and maximum efficiency at every stage of the business, from supplier to customer, enabling the company to sell high quality own brand and well-known products at low prices.
Lidl GB has long been committed to increasing wages in line with the cost of living, with a combined investment of over £50 million into hourly wages over the past five years. From March 2022, the retailer made its biggest ever investment into colleague wages, making it one of the highest paying supermarkets in the UK. In March 2023, the entry-level wage at Lidl increased to £11 an hour, making the company one of the most competitive in the industry. Lidl does not operate zero hours contracts.
We have pledged to invest £15 billion into British food and farming by 2025, with two thirds of our products coming from British suppliers, providing our customers with fresh, locally sourced, high quality produce at excellent value. 100% of our own-brand core eggs, milk, cream, butter, fresh beef and fresh primary chicken is British. We have signed the NFU Fruit and Veg Pledge and the Back British Farming Charter. All of our British fresh meat, dairy and fruit and veg is Red Tractor Assured.
Lidl GB sells over 100 different Fairtrade certified products throughout the year, from bananas originating from Colombia, tea picked in Kenya and cocoa for our chocolate, grown in Cote d’Ivoire. In addition to the products we sell all year round, we proudly support specific Fairtrade campaigns such as Fairtrade Fortnight.
The proposed store will meet Lidl’s high sustainability standards which are intended to minimise environmental impact over the lifetime of the store.
The site is off Blackmoorfoot Road in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield. The site is a parcel adjacent to Blackmoorfoot Road, within the wider former St Luke’s Hospital site which has been mostly been developed by Avant Homes. This parcel sits within a wider Mixed-Use allocation in Kirklees’ Local Plan (site ref. MXS1 – ‘Land south of Blackmoorfoot Road, Crosland Moor, Huddersfield’). The site is allocated for “Mixed use – housing and retail” – as housing has already been built out on the remainder of the site, the development of a Lidl foodstore is in accordance with the retail allocation.
Job information is usually available between 6 months to a year following planning permission, so should the plans be approved by Kirklees Council further information will become available once the store is in build.
Following public consultation and design feedback, we aim to submit a planning application in Spring 2023 and expect a decision in Summer 2023. Lidl aim to build out sites as quickly as possible, so we would estimate between 12 and 18 months before the new store would be open. All these timescales are of course subject to many external factors.
We are confident that the new Lidl store would not have a significant impact on local highways and will be submitting a full and detailed highways assessment to Kirklees Council which will be assessed by the authority’s highways department.
The proposed store lies on the edge of Crosland Moor local centre and will primarily serve people living in the Crosland Moor area.
There is no discount foodstore within the immediate vicinity of the proposed store, and this means that many people need to travel out of the area in order to undertake their regular food shopping.
Lidl stores compete with other discount foodstores and larger supermarkets and superstores, many of which are in out of centre locations – and they tend to complement rather than compete directly with smaller local shops. We anticipate this will be the case in Crosland Moor – and that the proposed store will encourage more people to shop locally, thereby reducing the need to travel.
In this context, we do not anticipate that the proposed store will have a significant impact upon Huddersfield Town Centre or other local centres in the area – and it is expected that this should be confirmed by the retail impact assessment currently being prepared to accompany the planning application.
Lidl UK is preparing a detailed planning application which will seek full approval for a new Lidl store off Blackmoorfoot Road in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield.
The planning application will be submitted to Kirklees Council in due course, who will make a decision on whether to approve the proposals.
We encourage everyone to complete a feedback form to have their say. If you would like to know how to submit a letter of support for the planning application once it has been submitted, please contact lidlcroslandmoor@new-stores.co.uk.
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