Aldi, the award-winning discount food retailer, is proposing to develop a new discount food store in Castle Douglas.

The proposals would deliver a new, modern food store development to serve residents living within Castle Douglas, improving the range and quality of shopping provision within the local area. The proposals would introduce a brand-new discount store to Castle Douglas, reducing the need for customers to travel substantial distances outwith the local area and will provide the community with access to Aldi’s high-quality offer and award-winning low prices.

The development would also bring significant investment and up to 35 new jobs to the local area, both during construction and once operating, with Aldi preferring that store staff are generally recruited from the local area. The new store in Castle Douglas could open as early as Christmas 2023.

Public exhibition

A planning application (Reference 22/0121/FUL) has been submitted to Dumfries & Galloway Council, and which was registered on 23 February 2022.  Whilst we are now past the period for submitting representations to the Council on the application, we are holding a further exhibition on:

Wednesday 12 October 2022

from 4.00pm – 7.00pm

at Castle Douglas Town Hall, 5 St Andrew Street, Castle Douglas, DG71DE

This is at the request of stakeholders in the community who felt they would benefit from a face to face exhibition and the opportunity to ask questions of the Development Team.  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic our previous question and answer sessions with the Development Team on 17 and 19 January 2022 were online.

You can also view our online exhibition boards here.