Aldi looks to build new store on Pershore market site

Aldi agreed to buy the 40-year-old market building earlier this year

A town's market could be demolished to make way for a budget supermarket.

Aldi has put forward plans to build a new store on the site of Pershore Market in Worcestershire, after buying the building earlier in the year.

Its plans include creating 50 jobs and building 124 parking spaces on the site off King George's Way.

They have the support of the West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin, who said it would be "a boost for local people and the local economy".

Aldi said all of the current occupiers would have to move to make way for the new supermarket, but Billing House and the Market Gate building, with a new façade, would remain.

The site is home to a number of businesses, including a veterinary surgery, an NFU mutual office and a St Richard's Hospice shop.

Mrs Baldwin said she had spoken to stallholders at the indoor market to hear their plans for the future and welcomed the boost the £5m new Aldi supermarket would give the town.

"I am confident that Aldi and the local economic development team will make sure that stallholders are well supported to find new locations if needed," she said.