Aldi targets 30 new stores in West Yorkshire – starting with these towns

The UK’s fifth largest supermarket has been on an expansion drive in recent years as it targets having 1,200 stores open by 2025.

Among the towns it hopes to open in are Heaton, Chapeltown, and Eastmoor. It also wants to build additional stores in Rothwell and Huddersfield.

Aldi, which currently has more than 880 stores across the UK, has identified 30 new locations where it is looking for freehold town-centre or edge-of-centre sites suitable for development.

It says each site should be around 1.5 acres and able to accommodate a 20,000 sq ft store with around 100 parking spaces, ideally on a prominent main road and with good visibility and access.

Ciaran Aldridge, National Property Director at Aldi UK, said: “Aldi is growing rapidly and we are welcoming around a million new customers into our stores every year.

“But there are also hundreds of towns across the UK where there is not an Aldi, meaning there are hundreds of thousands of people who can’t easily access the high quality, affordable food our customers love.

“We are willing to explore all opportunities, including developer-led schemes or existing retail units.”

The full list of locations it is targeting in West Yorkshire are:

Rothwell

Heaton

Brighouse

Burley in Wharfedale

Chapeltown

Denby Dale

Eastmoor

Elland (Relocation)

Halifax (Relocation)

Hebden Bridge

Heckmondwike

Hipperholme

Honley

Horbury

Horsforth

Huddersfield Central (Relocation)

Ilkley

Mirfield

Moor Allerton

Normanton

Ossett

Otley

Pudsey

Queensbury

Roundhay

South Halifax

South West Bradford

Sowerby Bridge

Weetwood/Headingley

West Bowling