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ON VIEW: Graeme Munro of Lidl, left, explains the warehouse plans to AD Humphrey and Charlie Rushen, right, at the open day. Echo picture by Chris Moorhouse
THERE could be as many as 500 lorry movements every day at a huge supermarket warehouse planned for a New Forest village, the Daily Echo can reveal.
German retailer Lidl wants to build a regional distribution centre on a field on the edge of the National Park with the creation of up to 200 jobs.
But residents in the quiet nearby village of Ower have vowed to fight the proposal to build the centre at Wade Park Farm, near junction two of the M27, which they say will “ruin” village life.
At a public consultation held in Totton yesterday, Lidl revealed 180 of their own lorries plus up to 100 contracted hauliers could visit the warehouse each day.
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