A new Lidl store for
Bishop's Stortford
Lidl would like to open a new neighbourhood foodstore in Bishop’s Stortford, on the Gates of Stortford site, at Stansted Road, CM23 2BT. This will be the first Lidl store within East Hertfordshire District, and will provide new and improved shopping facilities for the area, widening local consumer choice.
The new foodstore will be of high quality design, and will complement the adjacent commercial uses on Stansted Road, providing an accessible neighbourhood store for residents and employees to the north of the town.
The scheme will deliver new investment in the Stansted Road area, and will create up to 40 new jobs for local residents.
Lidl’s planning application has now been submitted to East Hertfordshire District Council (application reference: 3/21/1756/FUL) and we would like to know what the community thinks of our plans.
You can view the planning application in full on the Council’s website here.
From here you will be able to make comments on the planning application. If you would like to see the project go ahead, it is important that you make your views known. We would be grateful if you could take a few minutes to register your support in the following ways:
Online via the Council’s planning portal here.
Alternatively you can complete a feedback form here.
This website provides details of the planning application which has been submitted to East Hertfordshire District Council. If you have any questions about the proposals, please email scott@royalpilgrim.com or call 0800 089 0361. To ‘Have Your Say’ on the proposals, please click here.
What’s the store replacing?
The site is currently occupied by the Gates of Stortford car dealership. Due to evolving changes in the motor industry, Gates is consolidating its business, and refocusing its operations on its larger, more strategic dealerships. All staff currently employed on the site will be relocated within the Gates business.
Lidl is proposing to build a high-quality, modern and fit for purpose foodstore. Key features of the new store are:
Our planning application includes a detailed Transport Assessment, which will be reviewed by Hertfordshire County Council Highways Team. The Transport Assessment takes into consideration issues such as Lidl’s expected busiest periods.
The site is well-located, easily accessible to the local community and is well connected to the wider local footpath network.
Secure cycle parking for staff and customers is proposed at the front of the store, in a well-monitored location. The site is well-connected to the local cycle network, which will enable cycling as a substitute for short car trips.
The site is well-located for the bus network, close to existing bus stops on Stansted Road.
Everyone knows we’re Lidl on price. So, it’s time to tell you what we’re Big on.
We’re Big on Quality. Big on the big shop. Big on all the things that matter. Big on the things that make cupboards and bellies and life feel fuller. Big on detergent that gets your socks white and cheese that knocks them off. Big on carrots that crunch and chillies with bite. Big on cuisine from far and wide, and meat from local farmers. Big on brands and biscuits and baby stuff and bicycle pumps and butter. We’re Big on everything.
Except of course, on price, because that’s where we’ll always be Lidl.
Lidl first opened its doors in Great Britain in 1994 and currently has over 25,000 employees, 860 stores and 13 distribution centres in England, Scotland and Wales. Lidl takes pride in providing top quality products at low prices.
The Lidl retail philosophy is focused on simplicity and maximum efficiency at every stage of the business, from supplier to customer, enabling the company to sell high quality own brand and well-known products at low prices.
Lidl is committed to sourcing high quality fresh meat, poultry, fruit and veg from British farms. We work closely with Red Tractor to ensure that our British meat, poultry, fruit and veg is responsibly sourced to strict food hygiene, animal welfare and environmental standards, with every pack traceable to the farm of origin. This guarantees our customers a fresh, locally sourced, high quality range of meat and poultry at excellent value.
Lidl GB sells over 50 different Fairtrade certified products, from bananas originating from Colombia, tea picked in Kenya and cocoa for our chocolate, grown in Cote d’Ivoire. In addition to the products, we sell all year round, we proudly support specific Fairtrade campaigns such as Fairtrade Fortnight. This is an opportunity to give a voice to farmers and growers throughout the world.
The new store at Bishop’s Stortford would feature our famous ‘Middle of Lidl’ products. Our ever-changing middle aisle offers customers the opportunity to purchase non-food household items at bargain prices. Click here to see this week’s offers.
The proposed store will meet Lidl’s high sustainability standards which are intended to minimise environmental impact over the lifetime of the store.
A planning application for the proposed new Lidl supermarket in Bishop’s Stortford has been submitted to East Hertfordshire District Council, who will make a decision on whether to approve the store proposals.
If you want our project to be successful, it is vitally important that you make your views known so that they can be taken into account when the Council’s Planning Committee decides whether to approve or refuse the application.
If you would like to see the project go ahead, it is important that you make your views known to the Council. We would be grateful if you could take a few minutes to register your support in the following ways:
Online via the Council’s planning portal here.
Alternatively you can complete a feedback form here.
As with all developments there will be people who are for and people who are against the development and it is very important that everyone has their say. We would ask those people who have concerns about the proposals to contact us by (clicking here) and completing a feedback form. We will then seek to address these wherever possible.
The store will deliver significant benefits to local communities within Bishop’s Stortford:
