{"id":808104,"date":"2026-10-20T01:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808104\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T01:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:10:20","slug":"plans-for-crescent-link-store-to-be-challenged-by-tesco-says-lidl-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808104\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for Crescent Link store to be challenged by Tesco, says Lidl boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supermarket giant Lidl says it has been informed rival chain Tesco intends to launch a legal challenge against its plan to build a new store in Londonderry.<\/p>\n

Plans to build the store at Crescent Link in Derry’s Waterside were first submitted in 2021 and given the green light earlier this year by Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins.<\/p>\n

But Lidl said it has now learned that Tesco has written to the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) requesting permission to challenge the store’s ministerial approval.<\/p>\n

That challenge, Lidl said, could jeopardise millions of pounds of investment in the north west region as well as the creation of hundreds of new jobs.<\/p>\n

“From our side it’s extremely disappointing and frustrating that there’s another potential roadblock for our Crescent Link store,” Lidl’s regional managing director Gordon Cruikshanks said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Radio Foyle’s Mark Patterson Show,<\/a> Cruikshanks said Lidl had been made aware of “a pre-action protocol in advance of a judicial review” in relation to Crescent Link.<\/p>\n

He said that meant “Tesco have written to the Department of Infrastructure requesting that planning permission recently granted to ourselves is quashed”.<\/p>\n

“We are extremely concerned to learn of Tesco’s plans to attempt to hinder our expansion in Derry-Londonderry through a judicial review process,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supermarket giant Lidl says it has been informed rival chain Tesco intends to launch a legal challenge against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}