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Samuel Port

New Leeds Lidl supermarket plans submitted with the promise of '40 jobs'

Plans have been submitted for a new Lidl supermarket in the Leeds district with the promise of "40 new jobs".

The Mercure Hotel on Leeds Road, Wetherby, has been eyed for development with plans to bulldoze the site. The proposal was submitted to Leeds City Council on October 7 with a series of supporting documents, including artistic impressions and blueprints of how the supermarket will look.

Planning firm Lichfields, representing Lidl, have also lodged plans for an 84-bed elderly care home on the site - which they say will create 95 new jobs - and eight senior living homes.

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Lidl plans include 113 car parking spaces serving the foodstore, including eight accessible spaces, nine parent and child spaces, seven staff spaces and two rapid electric vehicle charging points. Plus, 28 car parking spaces for staff and visitors to the elderly care facility, including two accessible bays;

To ease congestion, there would be vehicular and pedestrian access from Wetherby Road, including a new right turn lane, and pedestrian connections to Micklethwaite Grove and Grange View/Micklethwaite View.

An artistic impression of how the new Lidl in Wetherby would look (Lichfields)

Also a servicing area to the western side of the foodstore; and a co-ordinated scheme of landscaping across the site, including the retention of existing trees and planting of new trees.

Comments in favour or against need to be submitted by residents by Friday December 9. Leeds City Council's internal target date for a decision is Monday January 16.

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