Lidl reveals latest plans for two new Fife stores

The cut-price operator has two planning applications with Fife Council.

Its plans to build a bigger store opposite Morrisons on the Esplanade, Kirkcaldy, have been in hand for some time – and are now moving.

Lidl has also lodged plans for a new store in Leven where it already has an outlet.

The supermarket hopes to start work in Kirkcaldy this summer – planning documents suggest it could come before councillors in July.

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It was given permission to build on the empty land at Kirkcaldy Central Workshops in 2017, but nothing has since happened.

The store may now have a bigger sales area, and changes are planned to checkouts, and a different parking lay-out.

Plans were put on hold in 2018 with the development pushed back until 2019, and no prospect of it starting until this year.

Lidl has also submitted a planning application to build a store in Turpie Road, Leven.

It already has a base in the town’s Mitchell Street.

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