Aldi has announced plans for a new store on Sandbrook Road in Ainsdale, with a public consultation now open for residents to have their say.
The discount retailer wants to transform a brownfield site adjacent to St John Stone Church and the Ainsdale Centre for Health and Wellbeing. The site currently houses several buildings, some of which have become vacant and fallen into disrepair.
Aldi said the proposals represent an investment of more than £7m into the local economy and would create about 40 full-time equivalent jobs, paid above the National Living Wage.
The planned store would have a sales area of 1,181 square metres, with 117 car parking spaces including eight accessible bays and seven parent and child spaces. Four electric vehicle charging points are included in the plans, with infrastructure for additional points in future.
Access to the store would be via the A565 Liverpool Road, through a new traffic signal junction. Aldi said access arrangements have been agreed in principle with highways officers at Sefton Council. The proposed junction would include controlled pedestrian crossing facilities on both the site access road and Liverpool Road.
The nearest Aldi to the proposed site is currently in Birkdale, which the retailer described as “increasingly busy” and serving a different catchment area.
Aldi is preparing a planning application for submission to Sefton Council and said it wanted to consult the community before submitting. The consultation is open until 19 March 2026.
Residents can give feedback through Aldi’s consultation website, by post to Cavendish Consulting, 29 John Dalton Street, Manchester, M2 6FW, by phone on 0800 066 8941, or by email to North@consultation-online.co.uk.