A retired nurse has spoken of her anger over the scale of a new Lidl and DIY store which is being built behind her home. Mandy Mulligan, aged 57, has lived in her property 11 years.
However, she says the garden which she has enjoyed throughout that time will now be effectively devoid of sun and warmth for much of the day due to the new Lidl supermarket and Wickes DIY built on land near her home. She said the previous retail park, a series of industrial units, which had sat on the site until they were cleared in the past few years, were barely visible from ground level in her garden, unlike the new buildings.
She says that she understood that the new buildings would be around the same height, but they are not, and present a very real presence in the view from her home. Ms Mulligan had objected to the “intrusive” supermarket and DIY store plans when they were originally debated in 2019 and then re-discussed in 2022 but she said that the sheer scale of the proposed buildings had never truly dawned on her, DerbyshireLive reports.
