Poundland East Dulwich soon to be replaced by Tesco Express

[kbabes]

On 09/10/2025 at 22:35, Scottfield said:

An Iceland would be good. 

🤣

[monica]

Planning permission for the new Tesco Express on the old Poundland site, on Lordship Lane has now been granted. It was granted on the 14th October. 
Tesco’s will have an ATM, which we need in East Dulwich. 

[beansprout]

Wow, well served with local supermarkets then… 

Agree with ATM.. good c position to been mugged or cloned card - prob why not been considered before.

Wasn’t there one outside post office and still  is2where people were abit nervous of using?

Hope I am wrong but won’t see me rushing to use it…sure lots of folk will benefit thou.

Not a great fan or user of Iceland but when it closed years ago people complained.. 

Guess they only b look at bigger sites - can’t recall an express one but a pity to those who frequent the store. Strange that Tesco can use it as local but Iceland can’t - guess it is  power of large supermarkets.

Personally would have  loved an Aldi or Lidl but  clearly site to small.

Only grocery stores left to come are Waitrose, Aldi, Lidl… 

[Chris wood]

When is this happening? Permission was granted in june and there is an application for a BT box outside 

[Sue]

On 21/10/2025 at 17:09, monica said:

Planning permission for the new Tesco Express on the old Poundland site, on Lordship Lane has now been granted. It was granted on the 14th October. 
Tesco’s will have an ATM, which we need in East Dulwich. 

Do you have a link to this, Monica?

I just googled and I can't find anything on the Southwark  planning register, but I'm probably looking in the wrong place.

[ianr]

I don't think a single all-inclusive URL is easily doable.  When you enter a search the system presents the result without any of one's search parameters added to the URL.  So I suggest you go to https://planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-applications/search.do?action=advanced

where you just need to enter the address -- use SE22 8EW -- and the 

Date Received start date.  I used 1/1/2025. 

The three Tesco applications, all minor things, were all made in May.  The Simple search that I'd done previously had no time limit, and didn't include anything else that might have been from Tesco in the last two years.

Incidentally, when I searched on the address

29-35 Lordship Lane

it did not pick up the Tesco applications, which were held as

29 - 35 Lordship Lane

Grrr!

 

Edited October 30 by ianr

[ianr]

Alternatively, here's the whole caboodle.

Reference    25/AP/1351
Application Received    Wed 07 May 2025
Application Validated    Wed 14 May 2025
Address    29 - 35 Lordship Lane London Southwark SE22 8EW
Proposal    Installation of a new ATM with associated security camera and light.
Status    Granted
Decision    Minor - GRANTED
Decision Issued Date    Fri 13 Jun 2025

Reference    25/AP/1352
Application Received    Wed 07 May 2025
Application Validated    Wed 14 May 2025
Address    29 - 35 Lordship Lane London Southwark SE22 8EW
Proposal    Installation of a new louvre.
Status    Granted
Decision    Minor - GRANTED
Decision Issued Date    Fri 13 Jun 2025

Reference   25/AP/1353
Display of 1 no. new non-illuminated box fascia with vinyl lettering, 1 no. new box fascia with internally illuminated acrylic lettering, 2 no. new non-illuminated box fascia, 2 no. new internally illuminated projecting signs and 1 no. new vinyl to be applied around ATM.
29 - 35 Lordship Lane London Southwark SE22 8EW
Advertisement Consent-GRANTED 
Decided Mon 07 Jul 2025

The only Lordship Lane item I could find as granted in w/b 13 October was to do with replacement of Dulwich Library's heating system by an air heat pump. 

Edited October 30 by ianr

[Sue]

8 hours ago, ianr said:

Alternatively, here's the whole caboodle.

Reference    25/AP/1351
Application Received    Wed 07 May 2025
Application Validated    Wed 14 May 2025
Address    29 - 35 Lordship Lane London Southwark SE22 8EW
Proposal    Installation of a new ATM with associated security camera and light.
Status    Granted
Decision    Minor - GRANTED
Decision Issued Date    Fri 13 Jun 2025

Reference    25/AP/1352
Application Received    Wed 07 May 2025
Application Validated    Wed 14 May 2025
Address    29 - 35 Lordship Lane London Southwark SE22 8EW
Proposal    Installation of a new louvre.
Status    Granted
Decision    Minor - GRANTED
Decision Issued Date    Fri 13 Jun 2025

Reference   25/AP/1353
Display of 1 no. new non-illuminated box fascia with vinyl lettering, 1 no. new box fascia with internally illuminated acrylic lettering, 2 no. new non-illuminated box fascia, 2 no. new internally illuminated projecting signs and 1 no. new vinyl to be applied around ATM.
29 - 35 Lordship Lane London Southwark SE22 8EW
Advertisement Consent-GRANTED 
Decided Mon 07 Jul 2025

The only Lordship Lane item I could find as granted in w/b 13 October was to do with replacement of Dulwich Library's heating system by an air heat pump. 

Thanks ianr.

So no mention of either Tesco  or October?

So we are no further forward with knowing when the Tesco will actually open?

The place seems to have been empty for ages. I would have thought Tesco might have wanted to be up and running in time for Christmas, but maybe that isn't relevant to a relatively small Tesco Express?

ETA: The wonders of the space bar, eh? It took me more  time than it should have done to see the difference between the two addresses in your previous post!

Edited October 30 by Sue

[ianr]

I did check that Tesco were the applicants on at least one of the 7 May forms.  I would be interested to know what Monica has seen.  Possibly some other formal annnouncement somewhere, or the LL traders' grapevine (which I'd guess is generally reliable)?  I wondered if it might have been a licensing matter, but don't see any mention in the licensing sub-committee's 16 October meeting agenda.

In the meantime, I'm not even assuming that Tesco are taking the lease.

[Sue]

3 hours ago, ianr said:

I did check that Tesco were the applicants on at least one of the 7 May forms.  I would be interested to know what Monica has seen.  Possibly some other formal annnouncement somewhere, or the LL traders' grapevine (which I'd guess is generally reliable)?  I wondered if it might have been a licensing matter, but don't see any mention in the licensing sub-committee's 16 October meeting agenda.

In the meantime, I'm not even assuming that Tesco are taking the lease.

The suspense is killing me.

And I don't even like Tesco 🤣 and I can't remember the last time I used an ATM 🤣

[monica]

There was a link on this thread re planning permission for the old pound shop site. We the traders don’t know anything about it. Ask my brother, he would have a better idea if Tesco’s opening or not. 

[monica]

I have just read on open council network that Tesco had applied for an alcohol licence, and an ATM license, according to the article. Not sure if permission was granted, due to local opposition, citing another supermarket might encourage shoplifting and anti-social behaviour.

Edited December 2 by monica

[mitchiner]

Do you have a link to this? The only one i could find was on the 24th July

[ianr]

The minutes of the licensing sub-committee meeting of 24 July are at https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/g8329/Printed minutes Thursday 24-Jul-2025 10.00 Licensing Sub-Committee.pdf?T=1.  The  application was granted.

Incidentally, the attached covering letter of 7 May does name Tesco as the applicant in all three of the planning applications I listed above in my 30 October post.

25_AP_1351-COVERING_LETTER-4061593.docx

Edited December 3 by ianr
add 'planning'

[CPR Dave]

"Opening hours Monday to Sunday from 06:00 to 00:00"

 

Good news for when Co op / M and S are closed early on Sundays.

[se22]

There is a notice on the window. Work to create the Tesco metro started 3rd December. Contract time 66 days.

A  worker was removing the flyposted posters when I passed by. It's a complete shell inside at the moment.

[CPR Dave]

Good stuff

[mitchiner]

welp, rip to the payless. Very nostalgic buying price marked ribenas for 1 pound more than it’s been listed for

[Sue]

16 hours ago, mitchiner said:

welp, rip to the payless. Very nostalgic buying price marked ribenas for 1 pound more than it’s been listed for

Eh?!

[monica]

Yes the work has started, there were a few wobbles along the way. However it’s started now. 😁

[hfoster]

Shame, that's a bit boring. At least the Poundland fulfilled the need of cheap basic toiletries.

[satsuma]

Crawthew Grove was always full of rubbish when Poundland was there and it's been refreshingly free of it since they've moved in. I hope it stays like this, but have a feeling it's going to get worse again with Tesco.

[Sue]

52 minutes ago, satsuma said:

Crawthew Grove was always full of rubbish when Poundland was there and it's been refreshingly free of it since they've moved in. I hope it stays like this, but have a feeling it's going to get worse again with Tesco.

What sort of rubbish?

[satsuma]

On 09/12/2025 at 20:48, Sue said:

What sort of rubbish?

The bins were always overflowing, broken bottles, etc...

[Sue]

54 minutes ago, satsuma said:

The bins were always overflowing, broken bottles, etc...

Sorry to be dim.

Was that coming from the shop itself, or from customers?

I'd have thought the shop would have some sort of large business bin, in which case presumably Tesco will as well?