An undisclosed supermarket wants to move into the building currently occupied by Curry’s in Hove.
Aberdeen Investments has submitted an application to remove a restriction on selling food and drink from the building on the Old Shoreham Road.
But the application has one glaring omission – the name of the prospective retailer which wants to sell food and drink there.
The application, prepared by NTR Planning Ltd, includes an analysis of how much trade a supermarket there would take away from nearby town centres, including Portland Road, Hove, Southwick and Portslade.
It seeks to amend a 2015 planning permission, which allowed changes to the newly extended building, with conditions including a ban on the sale of various different good including food and drink.
It says: “The planning application seeks to remove the words ‘food and drink’ from the condition so that the Curry’s store can be reoccupied as a food store.”
In calculating its impact on the different local town centres, it said the new food store would sell standard grocery items from 80% of its 1,900 sq m retail floorspace and larger, non-food items such as electrical goods from 20%.
It estimates that it would have a turnover of £14.7 million by 2030, and would most impact the existing Aldi on Boundary Road, the Aldi planned on the Old Shoreham Road and the Sainsbury’s currently on the Old Shoreham Road.
However, it says the council should mainly be considering the impact on town centre viability, adding: “The relevant centres are considered to be in good to very good health and so we do not consider that proposal will have an adverse impact on their vitality and viability, let alone a significantly adverse impact.”
Finally, the application includes a transport analysis, of which NPR Planning says: “The transport statement gives consideration to trip generation and confirms that the increase in trips on the local network is unlikely to be noticeable.
“It also highlights how some of the additional vehicle movements will be diverted trips from other food stores and not therefore be new trips to the network.”
The freehold of the site is owned by Aberdeen City Council, which bought it in 2016 for £13.6 million.
The planning application should be thrown out. No more supermarkets are required, high street is not in good health at all.
If you want to put something there other than a badly staffed Currys, bulldoze it and build some flats or Houses which are needed.
That’s not how planning works.
An application can’t be refused just because the committee or officers think the site would be better for housing or a sewage works or swimming pool.
They can only consider the application put in front of it and if it complies with planning rules.
TBH the name of the supermarket isn’t a planning issue as when an application is considered it should be based on the proposed use of the site not on who will be occupying it for that use.
I can imagine people objecting to the application just because they don’t like supermarket A and would rather have B and so on.
Look at parking…how many spaces? Not enough for a substantial supermarket. My guess the application will be refused.
We definitely need more supermarkets, hove population has almost doubled, with all the new builds and tower blocks going up
we have Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Lidl and soon Aldi all within a mile of this plot!
Are Currys and PC World actually moving? If so, where to?
Moving to something called ,” the internet”..
Bloody hell! What is it with this council the extra traffic would be horrendous! You’ve only got to look at the affect allowing Aldi on Lewes rd has had traffic lights are on green and no one can get into the industrial estate absolutely chocker there! What’s wrong with them being in town? These out of town places are a big mistake made decades ago!
A B&M store or Range would be great for the city, it would save people having to travel out of Brighton & Hove.
I hope is affordable
Please be a bargain booze!!!!!!
It’s L i D l
Curry’s need to stay there are no other shops like it
In Brighton or Hove
It will be a loss if Currys and pc world goes ,even further driving to find a store
As a proud nerd, I’ve never found either of those stores to be particularly helpful or good value compared to online shopping. It sounds like it is a continuation of the death of the Highstreet.
It’s going to be either an Aldi or a Lidl. You can tell from the split, 20% non food
Not Lidl or Aldi because they will both be operating within a mile of the Curry’s site. (The old Homebase is being converted into Lidl as we speak.)
I think you’ll find that it’s Aldi?
Aldi, Lidl is already on the Goldstone Site
Is another supermarket needed in the Curry’s location? Not in my view.
Apart from the obvious Co-op across the road from curry’s site there is an Aldi currently being built 7 mins walk on the same main road, there is a Waitrose and Lidl another 10 minutes walk from that, Lidl is even on the same road.
There are others; Tesco, Aldi and Sainsbury’s at the Portlsade boundary area which is a 20 minute walk to the West.
It’s easy to drive to any of these and not a huge stretch to walk to them either.
West Hove doesn’t need another supermarket on the north side of the train track.
I’ve “investigated” on line and can find nothing about Curry’s closing or moving out. Can someone clarify this situation?
Asda. Thstz a fact
More idiotic planning if approved
Affordable housing plus Lidl plus spoons would be ace
I’m not sure if I’ve read this Right, they are applying to sell food-so would Curry still be on the Site aswell as the Disclosed Supermarket, as it’s saying 20% are Electrial Goods. ( now there’s a Idea)
But there are to many Supermarkets-that part of the City has to many of them.
But a Asda or B&M Bargains would be good to be Honest, and there trying to get a McDonalds over the road aswell aren’t they-that area will be thriving won’t it.
Southwick has Little Waitrose & Co-op
Boundary Rd has Tesco & Aldi
Portland Rd has 2x Co-op & Sainsburys
Blatchington road has Co-op & Iceland
Old Shoreham Rd has Lidl, Co-op ( opposite) and Aldi when opens
Sainsburys-West Hove
Waitrose by Greyhound Statium
Grenadier has Tesco & Co-op
All the same there is no variety that’s why I say Asda as Lancing has a small 1,
Surely whoever has the Permission on this should look at all of this when considering it all.