Lidl, Houghton Road, Houghton Regis

15 Sep 2021

Lidl Get Approval for Second Houghton Regis Store

A new store for Lidl is to be built between Houghton Road and Blackburn Road in Houghton Regis. Planning permission for the store was actually granted in July.

Lidl GB’s Regional Head of Property, Jason Buckley, said, “We are delighted to have received planning permission for this store. This would mark our second store for Houghton Regis and it will be fantastic to serve even more of the local area with our fresh, quality, great value products in the not too distant future. We very much look forward to breaking ground and getting started on construction in due course”.

The new store will create up to 40 new jobs. In all, there will 1,410m² sales area, an in-store bakery, customer toilets, parking for cars and bicycles, and electric vehicle rapid charging facilities. Opening hours will be restricted to 7 am to 10 pm Mondays to Saturdays including bank holidays and 9 am to 5 pm on Sundays.

There had been concerns over access to the site. Permission has been granted so that the existing Blackburn Road access will take a delivery vehicle. A new 2m wide footway will lead into the site, and this will incorporate a dropped kerb crossing and tactile paving at the bellmouth. Traffic travelling towards Houghton Regis town centre will be able to turn right into the site, before reaching the traffic light junction with Townsend Farm Road, using a special turn lane junction arrangement at Houghton Road.

---

30 June 2021

Lidl for Houghton Road, Houghton Regis - Listen to the Debate

Listen to what Central Bedfordshire Councillors and others had to say while deliberating over a planning application to bring a Lidl supermarket to Houghton Road, opposite Screwfix and close to Townsend and Blackburn Road in Houghton Regis:

Councillors were keen to see a flattening of the loss of trees versus the number to be provided; more than 2 electrical vehicle rapid charging points; charging points for staff vehicles.

---

16 Feb 2021

Lidl Apply To Build Store on Houghton Road

Lidl is applying for full planning permission to build a new store between Houghton Road and Blackburn Road in Houghton Regis, currently a brownfield site, creating 40 jobs.

The company recently opened a store on Luton Road, Dunstable, and another store is planned for the Linmere development en route from the M1 motorway.

The proposal briefly comprises:

• a  new high-quality A1  Lidl foodstore with a  gross external area of  2,382 sqm and a net sales area of 1,414 sqm.

• 125 car parking  spaces  (including 10  disabled spaces,  10 parent and child and 2 electric vehicle spaces)

• an attractive hard and soft landscaping proposal

HGV site access would be via Blackburn Road, with customer entrance on Houghton Road.

Full Plans are available on the CBC Planning Portal.

Go to https://j.mp/cbcplanning search for CB/21/00435/FULL.

---

Click Here for More Houghton Regis Notes

---

Air Ambulances Called to Houghton Regis

Many people take the Air Ambulance service for granted thinking it is funded by the NHS. But actually, air ambulances rely on charity. And your fundraising is the reason Essex & Herts Air Ambulance continues to help save lives.

Essex & Herts Air Ambulance have twice been to Houghton Regis, recently.

On 14th September 2021, an Essex & Herts Air Ambulance rapid response vehicle was tasked to assist EEAST and Hertfordshire Constabulary with a male medical emergency. Teams worked together on the scene to optimise patient outcomes. The patient was transferred to a trauma unit for ongoing treatment.

On 12th October 2021, an Essex & Herts Air Ambulance rapid response vehicle was tasked to assist EEAST, with a female patient medical emergency. Teams worked together on the scene to optimise patient outcomes. The patient was transferred to the emergency department for ongoing treatment.

In April 2021 a teenager was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following a quad bike crash in Houghton Regis [STORY LINK]

On 25th March 2017 Essex & Herts Air Ambulance was tasked to assist EEAST with a male patient involved in a Road Traffic Collision. Teams worked together on the scene to optimise patient outcomes. The patient was transferred to a major trauma centre for ongoing treatment.

Please consider donating or helping to raise funds for Essex & Herts Air Ambulance.

2014 - Air ambulance taking off in Windsor Drive, Houghton Regis

MAGPAS

Magpas Air Ambulance is another air ambulance charity serving Houghton Regis, operating 24/7 and, on average, answers four calls for help a day treating around 900 patients in life-threatening emergencies every year.

MAGPAS services the communities of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and across the East of England and are dispatched by both the East of England and the East Midlands Ambulance Service Trusts – caring for a population of over 10 million.

In September 2018, MAGPAS  Doctor Steve Corry-Bass and Paramedic Steve Chambers landed in Houghton Regis via the Magpas Air Ambulance. They had been called to treat a boy who had been injured in a collision between a car and bicycle.

Magpas Air Ambulance is not a state-funded service and relies on generous public donations to continue saving lives.

• An air ambulance was called to Houghton Regis in 2011 when a lorry came off Sundon Road, went the wrong way around the Chequers Roundabout and ended up implanted in the Chequers pub.

---

Click Here for More Houghton Regis Notes

---