The opening date of a new Lidl supermarket in a Norfolk town has been revealed.
The store in Portal Avenue, Watton, will open its doors on January 26.
It will form part of a development off Norwich Road, which also includes 45 new homes.
Permission for the build of the store was granted by Breckland Council's planning committee back in March 2022.
Hi Hay! The Watton store is planned to open on the 26th of January. - Farrah
— @LidlGB (@LidlGB) January 3, 2023
It followed a dispute with rival supermarket chain Tesco.
An earlier permission, given in August 2021, was quashed in the High Court after Tesco argued it was unlawful.
The supermarket chain, which already has a large store in Watton, said Lidl's arrival in the town would have an "adverse impact" on the town centre's "vitality and viability".
In a July 2021 letter to the council, a consultant acting on Tesco’s behalf insisted their client's objection to the plan was in no way "motivated by a desire to prevent competition within the food retailing industry" but instead "related entirely to proper planning considerations alone".
The development was unanimously granted permission by councillors at the planning committee in March after they re-looked at the plan, which included some slight modifications from the last time it was given permission, including new conditions restricting the new store’s floorspace.
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