Confirmed: Discount supermarket and popular bargain shop coming to Northampton at abandoned Homebase site

'The works should provide the local community with attractive retail amenities for years to come'
By Jack Duggan
Published 21st Dec 2020, 14:16 GMT
Updated 21st Dec 2020, 14:24 GMT
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A supermarket and a discount retailer will be opening new stores on the derelict site of a former Homebase and Argos in Northampton, it has been confirmed.

Aldi and B&M Bargains will be opening branches on the land on Weedon Road with work ongoing to partially demolish and split the former retail units.

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Rumours had been circulating for months about what would replace Homebase but Quantum Construction, the firm undertaking the work, has confirmed them.

The former Homebase on Weedon Road, Northampton, is being turned into an Aldi and a B&M Bargains. Photo: Leila Coker, taken in SeptemberThe former Homebase on Weedon Road, Northampton, is being turned into an Aldi and a B&M Bargains. Photo: Leila Coker, taken in September
The former Homebase on Weedon Road, Northampton, is being turned into an Aldi and a B&M Bargains. Photo: Leila Coker, taken in September

A post on its website says: "The works should provide the local community with attractive retail amenities for years to come."

The existing building will be partly torn down, stripped out and modified to include a rear loading bay with ramp, two new signage towers and canopy with new windows and doors.

Externally there will be new lighting, paving and landscaping, while the car park will be resurfaced.

The large site on Weedon Road had been redundant for more than a year after Homebase closed in early 2019 and Argos moved into the nearby Sainsbury's in 2018.

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