Major retailer Aldi moves step closer to opening new Horsham store

The supermarket chain has this week lodged an application for a license with Horsham District Council to allow it to sell alcohol on the new premises which are still under construction on the Tanbridge Retail Park in Albion Way.

The multi-million-pound new store is being built on the site of the former Curry’s building near Waitrose. Aldi revealed back in January that it hoped to open the new supermarket towards the end of this year.

It had originally planned to open in October 2023 but it has faced a string of delays. Southern Water said back in March last year that the planned new building was on a public sewer. Investigations followed and the water authority said the issue had since been resolved.

The delays prompted some local residents to query what was happening at the site. But back in January this year, Aldi said construction was now ‘progressing well.’

Aldi says it has wanted to open a new store in Horsham for some time and many local residents are welcoming the prospect. The supermarket site will be landscaped and have 96 car parking spaces, including nine designated parent and child bays, and five blue badge bays. There will also be four electric vehicle charging points with provision for eight more when needed in the future.

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Aldi says that, unlike other supermarkets, Aldi is not a ‘one stop shop’ but has smaller stores focusing on a ‘limited range of great value, high quality goods, complementing rather than competing with existing local shops and services.’

Fifty new jobs will be created when the Horsham supermarket opens.

Hundreds of letters of support for Aldi were sent by local residents to Horsham District Council before planning permission was granted in November 2022.