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The budget retailer is looking to open many more supermarkets in South Yorkshire and a number are already in the works, with plans unveiled, submitted for review or approved.

Here are some of the locations in Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley where a new Lidl could soon open near you.

Part of the Dore House industrial estate, at the junction of Rotherham Road and Orgreave Road, will be demolished to make way for the new store.

Rotherham Council had objected because they were building a new town center in Waverley and intended to include an Aldi there.

But Sheffield councilors gave the planning request the go-ahead, with one outlining how the new store would be directly opposite the old Asda where The Full Monty was filmed and it would be useful to have a new one grocery store in the area.

The retailer said the new store, which would be opposite an existing Aldi supermarket, would create 40 jobs and have 91 parking spaces, an in-store bakery and toilets and solar panels on the roof.

In March, a letter sent to neighboring businesses stated that it intended to submit a planning application in the “coming weeks”.

Sports Direct is due to close the branch in July as it moves to new premises on The Moor, and Lidl will take over two floors of the building, which was once occupied by House of Fraser.

The building also houses a Poundland and a British Heart Foundation charity shop.

The discount retailer said the new store, on the High Street opposite Tesco, will create 15 full-time and 25 part-time jobs.

The building will measure 1,900 m², with a sales area of ​​1,256 m², and there will be 87 parking spaces.

The proposed store on Rotherham Road would have a retail area of ​​1,252m², including an in-store bakery and customer toilets, as well as 102 parking spaces, electric vehicle fast-charging stations and solar panels on its roof . Lidl said it would create around 40 new full-time and part-time jobs.

In 2020 councilors had rejected Lidl’s previous plans for a supermarket on the site, which would have included the demolition of the Christ Church building and part of the Swallowest Miners Welfare building.

He called for the construction of a 1,979m² supermarket, together with 121 parking spaces to the front of the store, on the 0.95 hectare site at the junction of High Street and Doncaster Road, which once housed Goldthorpe Primary School.

Home Bargains had obtained permission to open a new store there in 2019, but this program has not been implemented.

Its list of Sheffield areas where it said earlier this year it was looking for sites to open new branches included: Beauchief, Broomhill, Burngreave, Crystal Peaks, Ecclesall, Ecclesfield, Fir Vale, Fulwood, Gleadless, Hillsborough, Holbrook , Meadowhall and Norton.

In Doncaster, he was looking to open supermarkets in Conisbrough, Bessacarr and the Central and East Doncaster area.

In Rotherham, his wishlist for expansion included Kimberworth, Masborough Street, Rawmarsh and Wickersley/Bramley, in addition to the Maltby and Swallowest sites listed above.

And in Barnsley he said he wanted to open stores in Cudworth, Dodworth, Hoyland and Worsbrough.