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hours bid for shopping at Lidl
A SUPERMARKET could trade for an
extra six hours a week, if a variation to its planning permission is approved. Lidl
have applied to extend opening hours at their Treorchy store. Rhondda councillors
will vote on their proposal this week. In a report before the 26-member planning
committee, RCT chief legal officer Paul Lucas says the store, on the town's Caemawr
Industrial Estate, is currently open from 8am to 8pm from Monday to Saturday.
The branch was granted planning permission in September 2008 on this basis. Mr
Lucas writes that they are now seeking to extend trading by one hour a day. The
10am-4pm hours, which currently apply there on Sundays and bank holidays, would
be unchanged. The planning department have received one letter, objecting to
the bid. Mr Lucas summarises it by saying: "Since the store has opened,
many complaints have been made to the council over lighting from the store and
noise - particularly from delivery lorries, which run their engines continually
while loading and unloading. "The store has, in the past, and still takes
deliveries outside their agreed delivery times, and attracts large quantities
of young people who hand around in the car park, causing noise and disruption."
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