Lidl lined up for double approval in Manchester
City councillors will deliberate next week on two applications proposing new locations for the retailer: one in Moston and the other in Rusholme.
This will be the second time the proposed Moston Lidl has gone before Manchester City Council’s planning committee. The council opted to defer the application at last month’s meeting in order to have a site visit to see how the Lidl would impact the highway safety in the area.
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The two Lidl stores are nearly identical. Each is 21,100 sq ft in size, with a sales area of 14,400 sq ft. Both include in-store bakeries. Both are set to create 40 permanent jobs. Both are recommended for approval by Manchester City Council planning officers.
The stores have been designed to maximise natural light. They would be made with enhanced fabric to improve temperature regulation and feature energy consumption meters.
They are proposed for brownfield sites as well. The Rusholme Lidl would be built on the 1.6-acre, former Rusholme bus depot spot off Wilmslow Road. The Moston Lidl would be constructed on two acres of land off Hollinwood Avenue that was once the Barr Soft Drinks warehouse.
The stores only differ, really, when it comes to the amount of parking provided. In Moston, there would be 106 spaces. In Rusholme the number is 91. Both parking lots would have nine parent and child spaces, six accessible ones, and two with electric vehicle charging capability.
Rapleys is the planner for both schemes. The project teams also include HTC Architects, Cora IHT, Miller Goodall, Biodiverse Consulting, FDA, AWA, DDA, Signify, GMP, and Obsidian Geo-Consulting.
To learn more about the Moston Lidl search application reference 142670/FO/2025 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal. The Rusholme Lidl’s information can be found by using 142775/FO/2025.
Any provision for bike parking, particularly the Rusholme one given the cycle lanes there?
By Cloudedleopard
Lidl: we’re designing energy efficient buildings by maximising natural light!
Also Lidl: we’re paving the inner city with 91 pointless parking spaces. This will create so many unnecessary car journeys that our energy efficient building will be pointless in reducing emissions 😀 also our oversized carpark less than 1 mile away in Fallowfield retail park is replacing a GP surgery! Yay!
By M. I. Grant
The traffic around the rusholme one wold be crazy they have to divert the buses as it is when it’s busy
By Anonymous
Please please please build a lovely supermarket in Rusholme . We had a quick save years ago in walking distance now my similar supermarkets are bus rides away making it very difficult to fight my way onto buses full of students with standing room only. I am 72 with arthritis and a Lidl in rusholme one will be heaven sent for me and lots of other pensioners living in the high rise flats next to this allocated site
By Anonymous
How can anyone justify having any supermarket on the proposed New Moston site A nursery is next to it and a school very close. The Aldi site is bad enough but Hollinwood Avenue cannot handle more traffic safely.
By Anonymous
That Rusholme one is depressing. Such an accessible location. Why not have basement parking and a couple of storeys of apartments above the store? Maximise landscaping and tree planting rather than surface car parking!
By Anonymous