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Is Aldi coming to Putney?

Does anyone know if the proposed Aldi on the former Halfords/The Works site is going ahead?The High Street is rapidly turning into a dismal dump full of shiny, empty banks and boarded up shops from failed businesses that have deeply misunderstood the spending demographic to rent ratio in Putney.  We need something - anything -  that will bring back footfall.

Rose Compton ● 2799d13 Comments

Rose, looking unlikely at the moment I'm afraid.

Nick Gulliford ● 2799d

I am sorry to hear that, Nick.  Is anyone else interested in the site?

Rose Compton ● 2799d

Netto might be more appropriate.

Peter Miles ● 2799d

Knock the whole lot down and turn it into a piazza.

Bunny Payne ● 2799d

They would be ever do it but what a great idea Bunny!

Mike Warman ● 2799d

Much as I love Aldi I think a piazza would be awesome

Maxine Campbell ● 2798d

Very nice idea but who might fund that little pipe dream? Any kindly lottery winners out there? Imagine the whingefest that would ensue on this forum if the council announced that plan. All that money that would be better spent on education, healthcare, the elderly, cat rehoming, speed restriction signs, free bicycles, benches for the common...

Freddie Francis ● 2798d

Not much sign of activity behind the Wilko hoarding either, or am I mistaken? They missed Nov/Dec. If they now miss Easter Saturday then surely it ain't going to happen?

Bill Christie ● 2798d

Yes, the Wilko 'Fit-out' at the Exchange has to be the longest in retail history. Do they want to open a shop in Putney or not ?

Mike Harris ● 2796d

I remember last year when it was really hot, we had our windows at the back of the house open and could hear the fitters hammering and banging away until at least 11.30! Under pressure to get finished they said........

Jenny Traynor ● 2796d

Perhaps both Aldi and Wilco have got wind of the possibility of reduced parking in the Putney Exchange due to The Palmhouse second planning application?

Sandra Edwards ● 2796d

Freddie, the planning proposal for demolishing the site and building a public garden & 100 flats, with shops at street level, was objected to by none other than the Putney Exchange and the Putney Society and Wandsworth Council, not the local residents who wanted the redevelopment

Susan Bloomfield ● 2795d

What happened was that Wandsworth council turned down the planning application - but then Johnson, who was then the Mayor of London, called it in and, on wholly spurious grounds, allowed it. But then, if I remember rightly, the developers, who seem to have overpaid for the site, pulled out  of the deal .

Richard Carter ● 2795d