Discount supermarket chain Lidl submits planning application for new store on the site of a former Taskers homeware outlet, set to create 40 jobs. Tony McDonough reports

Lidl has submitted a planning application to build a new supermarket on the site of the former Taskers homeware store in Wavertree in south Liverpool.

In late August 2025 LBN revealed Lidl had acquired the 4.6-acre site on Wavertree Road. It also includes a 120,000 sq ft warehouse and a surface level car park. Taskers, Liverpool’s best-known homeware brand, had closed its store on the site in 2017.

Now the discount chain is pushing on with plans for the store which will see the creation of 40 jobs, It is one of a number of new outlets the company is planning to open across Liverpool city region.

This latest planning application follows a local public consultation. More than 600 people took part in the consultation, of which an overwhelming 95% saying they supported the plans.

It would be built to the discounter’s latest store format and feature the Lidl in-store bakery, its popular middle aisle, and customer toilets with baby-changing facilities.

Outside, the plans include rapid electric vehicle charging points, covered bicycle parking, and dedicated accessible and parent-and-child parking bays. Solar panels on the store roof would meet on average 25% of the store’s energy consumption.

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Stuart Jardine, regional head of property at Lidl GB, said: “During consultation, residents highlighted the benefits of easier access to our award-winning products, more convenient shopping choices for those families without ready access to a car, the transformation of a long-neglected site, and the creation of new jobs.

“We’re grateful for the overwhelming support that we have received from the community and look forward to a planning decision to hopefully deliver this store for Edge Hill.”