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Aldi has submitted its latest supermarket application with plans to relocate to a larger site in Bangor.

The German discount chain revealed earlier this year a proposal to relocate from its city centre store to a site on Caernarfon Road.

Now it has submitted its plans for the former Blakemore Cash and Carry site to Gwynedd council.

If successful, it will see 27 Aldi workers relocated to the new supermarket with 1,254sqm of sale space - more than a third bigger than the existing store on Garth Road.

There will be a further 10 jobs created.

Aldi said they did not believe their departure would harm the city centre - which they described as a "healthy and viable centre".

They said they owned the existing site and were working to identify a replacement tenant for the unit - although would not lease it to a competitor selling convenience goods.

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A planning statement supporting the application said: "The proposed store has been planned in order to replace the existing store on Garth Road, which is 22 years old having opened in February 1997 and no longer meets the requirements of Aldi or its customers.

"The store has narrow, constrained aisles which means customers often cannot pass each other with trolleys; and there are not enough tills resulting in long queues into the aisles which creates further congestion for customers.

"The lack of car park spaces also means that customers cannot park and go elsewhere.

"Each of these factors means that Aldi is not able to offer its customers the quality of shopping experience customers have come to expect.

"Given the above, Aldi has been looking at how best to address these issues.

"The site of the exiting store is highly constrained by surrounding uses and Aldi has concluded that it is not possible to extend the store.

"Therefore, as Aldi is committed to its investment in Bangor, it has been working to identify an alternative location in the city."

This has seen them choose the Caernarfon Road location.

An Aldi spokesman said: "A new store at this location would provide residents of Bangor with a greater level of parking, and a high-quality, modern store providing customers with a modern shopping experience, whilst still stocking the same range of award-winning products.”

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It would also see work carried out to try to improve the road layout outside the proposed store.

A roundabout would be created at the shared point of access to the site and neighbouring Dunelm store.