Lidl wants views on a new store off Lower Road with 123 parking spaces and up to 40 jobs, plus up to 54 homes. Have your say online or by freepost form.
Lidl GB wants to build a new supermarket and up to 54 homes on land off Lower Road in Aylesbury. It is asking residents for their views now, before it submits a planning application.
The discounter says the store is aimed at the south of the town. Shoppers there, it says, currently have to travel across Aylesbury to reach one of its stores. The plans and an online survey are on Lidl’s consultation website.
What Lidl is proposing
Lidl describes the store as a multi-million-pound investment. Its plans include:
- a sales area of 1,308 square metres, with an in-store bakery and the “Middle of Lidl” aisle
- up to 40 jobs
- 123 customer parking spaces, including accessible bays and parent and child spaces
- electric vehicle charging, with capacity built in to add more points as demand grows
- air source heat pumps and heat recovery systems to cut energy use
- rooftop solar panels, which Lidl says would supply around 25% of the store’s energy
- new landscaping and tree planting along the site boundaries, which Lidl says is to protect neighbours
The mature tree on Lower Road would be kept.
The homes come later, and from someone else
The application Lidl is preparing would be in two parts. It would seek full, detailed permission for the store. For the homes it would seek only outline permission, for up to 54.
Detailed applications for the housing would follow at a later date. Lidl says the homes would be built by a third-party developer or housebuilder, not by Lidl itself.
Lidl says the land is allocated in the council’s Local Plan for residential development and traveller accommodation. Its release does not say whether traveller accommodation would form any part of the scheme.
What Lidl says
Kate Bleloch, Regional Head of Property at Lidl GB, said:
“More than 3 in 5 households are now shopping at Lidl as more people vote with their feet and choose our great value and low prices. But shoppers in south Aylesbury are currently missing out, having to travel across town to shop - which is why we’re delighted to reveal plans for a new Lidl store to serve the growing community and nearby towns and villages to the south of Aylesbury. We want your feedback to help shape our plans to meet your needs.”
The “3 in 5 households” figure comes from Worldpanel by Numerator shopper data for the 52 weeks to 17 May 2026, according to Lidl. The company says it is now the UK’s fifth largest supermarket, with more than 1,010 stores and over 35,000 employees in Great Britain.
How to have your say
Lidl is asking as many residents as possible to comment. There are two ways:
- Online: view the plans and fill in the survey at aylesbury.newsite.lidl.co.uk.
- By post: Lidl says it has delivered a consultation leaflet with a freepost feedback form to households across Aylesbury.
The consultation website also lists an email address, lidl@new-stores.co.uk, and a freephone number, 0800 089 0361, for questions.
Neither Lidl’s release nor its consultation website gives a closing date for comments. If you want your view taken into account before the plans are finalised, it is safest to respond soon.
What it means for you
This is Lidl’s own consultation, not the council’s. No planning application has been submitted yet, so there is nothing to comment on through Buckinghamshire Council at this stage.
Once Lidl lodges its application, there will be a separate, formal chance to comment through the council’s planning system. We will report the application when it appears. Other schemes going through the system are in our Aylesbury planning news round-up.
If you live near Lower Road, the details worth checking on Lidl’s plans are the site layout, where the car park access would go, and the boundary planting it says is there to protect neighbours.
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