Major retailer moves step closer to opening store

Aldi has moved a step closer to opening its long-awaited new store in Horsham.

The supermarket chain has this week lodged an application for a license with Horsham District Council to allow it to sell alcohol on the new premises which are still under construction on the Tanbridge Retail Park in Albion Way.

The multi-million-pound new store is being built on the site of the former Curry’s building near Waitrose. Aldi revealed in January that it hoped to open the supermarkettowardstheendoftheyear.

Ithadoriginallyplannedto openinOctober2023butithas facedastringofdelays.Southern Water said back in March lastyearthattheplannednew building was on a public sewer.Investigationsfollowedand thewaterauthoritysaidtheissue had since been resolved.

Thedelayspromptedsome local residents to query what was happening at the site. But back in January this year, Aldi said construction was now ‘progressing well.’

Aldi says it has wanted to open a new store in Horsham for some time and many local residents are welcoming the prospect. The supermarket site will be landscaped and have 96 car parking spaces, including nine designated parent and child bays, and five blue badge bays. There will also be four electric vehicle charging points with provision for eight more when needed in the future.

Fifty new jobs will be created when the Horsham supermarket opens.

HundredsoflettersofsupportforAldiweresentbylocal residentstoHorshamDistrict Council before planning permission was granted in November 2022.