Construction on new Lidl in Tooting's historic building showing progress

Construction on Tooting's new Lidl in the historic RACs building is showing progress.

The now-vacant building, Upper Tooting Road, was approved to be developed into new shops, restaurants, and a 96 bedroom hotel back in 2018.

The development is also planned to provide 41 residential units including affordable homes for local people on lower incomes.

The new Lidl will have a larger sales area than the one currently on the same road, measuring 869m2.

It will also feature new facilities such as a customer car park with 29 parking spaces, including 6 Electric Vehicle Charging (EVC) bays to provide additional access to the store.

Lidl is working with construction firm Princebuild to build the store which will retain the existing employees from the Upper Tooting Road store and create up to 4 new jobs when opened.

The store is aiming to open in Spring 2021.

Chief Press Officer for Wandsworth Council, Charlie Masson Smith, previously told Nub News:

"You will see the preservation of this important local building in a prominent town-centre location - and its switch from being a vacant, rundown, and partly derelict building to being brought back into everyday public use delivers much more than just a supermarket."

Lidl GB's Regional Head of Property, Henry Neel, commented: "We are extremely grateful for all the support that we have received so far, and we would like to thank all of the local residents for their patience and understanding as we enter this next phase of development.

The RACS building was originally constructed in the 1920s as a three-storey department store.

Read our previous report on the construction here.

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