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Does anyone know which bit of Westgate this is?
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Wonder if it's the hinterland behind the old library? It's very close to Tesco if it is. Then Morrisons are said to be planning a store. I'm going to be broke going from one shop to another ( sorry even more broke). Still with all these assylum seekers coming in we need more shops.
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It could be where the old Labour Club is situated. I thought Aldi had quite large shops and there is a bit of land there at the bottom end of Westgate.
Talk about the English being a nation of shopkeepers. Or how about a nation of shoppers? All Leyland needs now is a Claires shop for people like Hayley.
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My sister said that the new ALDI shop is planned for where Leyland Garage had its repair and service facilities right at the top of Westgate and behind the building that used to be the Ford showroom.
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retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
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Originally posted by anacortesdamp
My sister said that the new ALDI shop is planned for where Leyland Garage had its repair and service facilities right at the top of Westgate and behind the building that used to be the Ford showroom.
Frank Damp
You beat me by 5 seconds there Frank, but yes your sister appears to be correct, her's the bit I snipped.
At the meeting Aldi chiefs said they had yet to apply for planning permission from South Ribble Borough Council, and do not own the land, at the junction of Westgate and Towngate -- currently used by a number of businesses including a former petrol station.
But they say the landlord is keen to sell and a planning application is likely to be submitted within the next few weeks.
If the application is passed, the food chain is hoping to develop the one-acre site into a store employing 14 people, with an 86-space car park.
But residents of Westgate say the proposed store -- just yards from a Tesco Extra supermarket built last year -- will result in traffic chaos. And they fear delivery lorries will be unable to get into the store.
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Oh, that place. I suppose the people who currently work there won't be getting a new lease this time around.
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But residents of Westgate say the proposed store -- just yards from a Tesco Extra supermarket built last year -- will result in traffic chaos.
There's an Aldi in Wigan just by Asda (is this deliberate policy to hijack the bigger supermarkets' customers?) and, yes, the traffic is chaos! Wigan Asda is being expanded yet again... though goodness knows why. I avoid that area like the plague most of the time as the traffic jams are awful.
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Oh dear, my aged parents live just off Westgate.......
I've wondered several times if all this construction of what are essentially out-of-town complexes is leading up to some sort of massive new road system through the centre of town, needed to feed the commerces?? And might this mean that there'll be more destruction of what little remains of 'older Leyland' ? Let us not forget, also, that there will be profit to be made by those with vested interests - landowners, demolition and construction companies.........or just call me cynical.
