Plans lodged for former Aldi supermarket site in Berwick

Cornhill-based Woodcock Contracting has lodged an application to build a laundrette, 6-bay jetwash and 2-bay drive through car wash.

Demolition work on the site has been carried out in recent weeks. The site has been unoccupied since Aldi relocated to Loaning Meadows Retail Park in September 2022.

A planning report on the applicant’s behalf states: “This proposed development on a former retail store site will ensure that a vacant site on a main approach road to Berwick upon Tweed is fully utilised for use by the general public and visitors to the town.”

It adds that the car wash would be constructed in two phases as demand rises, the first phase along the south west boundary to include the service area with phase two being located to the north east side.

Recycled trusses from the demolition of the former Aldi Store would be used in the construction of the laundrette.