Lidl Apply To Build Store on Houghton Road

Lidl are applying for full planning permission to build a new store between Houghton Road and Blackburn Road in Houghton Regis, currently a brownfield site, creating 40 jobs.

The company recently opened a store on Luton Road, Dunstable, and another store is planned for the Linmere development en route from the M1 motorway.

The proposal briefly comprises:

• a  new high quality  A1  Lidl foodstore with a  gross external area of  2,382 sqm and a net sales area of 1,414 sqm.

• 125 car parking  spaces  (including 10  disabled spaces,  10 parent and child and 2 electric vehicle spaces)

• an attractive hard and soft landscaping proposal

HGV site access would be via Blackburn Road, with customer entrance on Houghton Road.

Full Plans are available on the CBC Planning Portal under  CB/21/00435/FULL

Go to https://j.mp/cbcplanning search for CB/21/00435/FULL.

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