The Proposals

This proposed investment in a new and enhanced Lidl store reflects our ongoing commitment to Melksham and to providing an even better service to our customers. The proposals include:

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A brand new modern Lidl store built to our very latest specification, including in-store facilities like our popular bakery, customer toilets and a more spacious sales area including all your favourite products

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132 customer parking spaces including 6 accessible, 9 parent & child, 2 EV chargers (with capacity for more), and cycle parking. This would significantly improve on the existing offer at Bath Road

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A landscaping scheme will propose planting on the boundaries where possible to support biodiversity on the site

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A store with enhanced sustainable technology to minimise energy use, such as heat recovery systems and air source heat pumps. Rapid electric vehicle charging bays are provided in the car park and solar panels on the roof would provide up to 25% of the store’s energy requirements

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New jobs for local people, including full and part-time roles. Lidl GB pay rates for hourly paid colleagues is a minimum of £13.45 per hour. Existing colleagues would transfer and the new store would provide around 10 additional jobs

site plan

Our previous plans to extend the existing Bath Road store onto the Unicorn car park do not provide the additional space we need to serve our growing customer base. The new store location will enable us to enhance the shopping environment for our customers, and improve store parking, especially parent & child spaces and accessible spaces.

Retail Industry Awards Supermarket of the Year

Lidl is the proud winner of the Retail Industry Awards Supermarket of the Year for the third year running.

The Grocer Gold Award

Lidl have been named Grocer of the Year at The Grocer Gold Awards 2025.