Aldi store work gets under way

WORK is already under way to build a discount supermarket in the town centre.

Diggers have been in action clearing away land at the site on Holliers Walk in Hinckley where a new Aldi store is to be built.

The former factory site was until recently overgrown with weeds and shrubs but all the greenery has now been removed in preparation for the new store.

Hinckley and Bosworth BorThe discount store will create Aldi currently has a store on the site of the former HJ Hall facough Council recently approved 20 full-time and 20 part-time the A5 near Dodwells Island tory on Coventry Road. the plans for the 1,804 sq m site jobs. which it intends to keep open. The group is to move over which includes 111 car park The plans to renovate the And it also has a new store in from its current store on Hawley spaces. wasteland were widely welBroughton Astley. The chain Road.

To the north of the site is Holcomed when they first menalso has two stores in Nuneaton It is expected to transfer all its liers Walk, to the east is New tioned in late 2017. and one in Bedworth. staff from there to the new outBuildings, to the west is Baptistlet.AsimilarsizestorewasTheAldibrandwasfounded Walk and to the south are comopened in South Wigston in in 1946 in Germany and the Work on demolishing the facmercial properties. Leicester in September 2018, chain has over 10,000 stores tory was completed in Decem

The store will have two after planning permission was worldwide. ber 2017. entrances from Holliers Walk granted by Oadby and Wigston Discount chain Lidl is also Work is due to start on the and New Buildings. Borough Council in 2017. building a new superstore on new Lidl store next week.