WORK has started on a project to extend and refurbish a Derby supermarket.
It follows a successful planning application by Lidl to increase the size of its existing store at Southgate Retail Park, Normanton Road.
In its planning application to Derby City Council, the supermarket says: "Lidl has identified the need to modernise the current site."
The supermarket chain's plan involves demolishing a vacant neighbouring retail unit to create a larger, stand-alone store.
It plans to expand the store both to the front and to the side, installing a new glazed frontage.
Lidl said the larger store would allow it to stock more products as well as create an in-store bakery and more warehouse space. Extra parking spaces would also be created as part of the proposal.
The retail units were first constructed in 2000.
