Plans for a new supermarket could be approved. An application to build the new Aldi in King George VI Avenue, Hove, will be decided by councillors at a planning committee meeting on September 4. A report ahead of the meeting recommends that councillors are minded to grant planning permission, subject to conditions.
The application relates to land at Court Farm, south east of the roundabout connecting the A27, Devil’s Dyke Road, Mill Road, Dyke Road Avenue and King George VI Avenue. The property is a former farm and farmland that forms part of a dry valley cut off from wider farmland when the A27 bypass was constructed in the early 1990s. Court Farm House, associated garages and storage buildings have been demolished and the site has mostly been cleared.
The farm is close to the Woodland Drive Conservation Area, including the Three Cornered Copse, but is not itself within a conservation area and isn’t subject to any heritage, ecological or other restrictions. The proposal is for a 1880sqm development for Aldi including a 1,315sqm retail supermarket and a 107-space car park with disabled, parent and child, and motorcycle spaces, together with bicycle parking and EV chargers. Road access to the site would be reconfigured and upgraded.
Proposals include a right-turn island on King George VI Avenue, enhanced footpaths and cycleways on the eastern side of the road, as well as downgrading the speed limit from 40mph to 30mph. The building would be a contemporary design using a mi.