A SUPERMARKET could still be allowed to carry out 6am deliveries after launching an appeal to get a council rejection overturned.

Budget supermarket Aldi had asked Worcester City Council to approve plans to allow 6am deliveries to its Tybridge Street store in Worcester but the request was turned down by councillors over fears it would be too disruptive for those living nearby.

While a decision would usually have been delegated to the council’s planning officers, the proposal was discussed by the planning committee at the request of St John’s councillor Richard Udall over the potential disruption it could cause for residents living nearby.

Aldi has now lodged an appeal with the government’s planning inspector which if backed would allow the earlier deliveries to take place.

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Cllr Udall asked the planning committee to be “sensitive to the location, geography and residential amenity of the area” and allow people living nearby to “have some peace in the morning and not be disturbed by deliveries.”

He said neighbours, many of whom were elderly and vulnerable, should not have to put up with the “crashing and banging, running engines, vehicles reversing and all the other noises” that earlier deliveries would bring.

“I think residents are quite happy to put up with 7am but 6am is far too early,” he told the planning committee at the meeting in the Guildhall.

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Planning officers had recommended to the committee that it allowed Aldi to make earlier deliveries as it ‘would not make a significant impact’ on residents “given the distance to the loading area and the established noise and activity.”

“Given that no adverse issues arose in the previously granted 12-month permission, it is considered reasonable to allow them to be extended permanently,” the report said.