Moston next up for Lidl
Hot on the heels of an announcement that it will open 40 more locations in a £500m programme, the retailer has filed plans for a store at Hollinwood Avenue in the north Manchester district.
Working with Rapleys, Lidl wants to develop a 21,143 sq ft building at the two-acre site at 440 Hollinwood Avenue. Of this, the trading area would be 14,353 sq ft.
The site formerly housed a storage and distribution unit for soft drinks business AG Barr.
Also on the professional team are HTC Architects, Cora IHT, Miller Goodall, Biodiverse Consulting, FDA, AWA, DDA, Signify, GMP, and Obsidian Geo-consulting.
The site is north of Hollinwood Avenue, and is bound by residential development fronting South Crescent to the north, residential development fronting St Margaret’s Road to the east, Hollinwood Avenue to the south, and commercial uses to the west. Moston railway station is around 180m to the east.
The closest designated retail centre is the Hollinwood Avenue/Greengate local centre, across the road.
As it stands, the site has 15 car parking spaces, to which Lidl intends to add 91 spots.
Lidl remains busy in the region. Construction began in March on the retailer’s third Oldham store, around a 10-minutye drive from the Moston site, at Hollinwood’s Albert Street.
However, one knockback the group received came in Stockport in January, with proposals for a former printing site in Cheadle Heath rejected.
The £500m expansion announced this month represents the latest update for Lidl’s site requirements brochure, which signalled that the grocer is expanding its horizons in terms of locations, adding in several upscale London postcode areas to its wish list.
Lidl’s Moston plans can be viewed on Manchester City Council’s planning portal, reference 142670/FO/2025.
Another substandard scheme for pedestrians. Let’s have the store frontage at the road/kerbside, please. Car parking to the rear.
By Anonymous
Another scheme designed by highways engineers who have never experienced being a pedestrian. MCC seriously needs to get some new talent into their highways department – and update their policy manual. It’s not the 1970s anymore
By Anonymous
Yet another Lidl/Aldi foodstore set in acres of carparking that should be set at the front of the site and have several, possibly more than several, floors of residential above.
By Anonymous
Copy and paste the potential away.
By ABF
Inappropriate place for Lidl or in fact any supermarket. Traffic congestion and speed along Hollinwood AVE is 40 mph and is already a very fast ,busy, highway approaching the Gardners Arms roundabout . Both directions of Hollinwood Ave are chocked already with traffic and no more supermarkets are needed in the area. Local angry resident of The Avenue.
By Anonymous