Permission was granted on 30 June for a 1,457sqm Lidl on the old county depot at Segensworth. Signage is approved and six conditions are still to be signed off.

Lidl has planning permission for a supermarket on the former Hampshire County Council depot at Segensworth, and the paperwork that follows a permission is now moving through the council week by week.

Fareham Borough Council approved application P/25/1272/FP on 30 June 2026. The register describes it as the “development of Class E retail store with associated parking, landscaping and access works” on land adjoining Cartwright Drive and Southampton Road, Titchfield, the site of the old county council depot. The applicant is Lidl Great Britain Ltd, based at Foxes Park, Nursling; the agent is CarneySweeney; the case officer is Heather Lealan. The application was submitted on 2 October 2025 and became valid on 1 December, so it took just under seven months to decide.

On 5 August the council also approved P/26/0750/AD, the advertisement consent for the store’s signs: three illuminated billboards, two poster displays, two pieces of external signage, two flagpole signs and an unilluminated trolley bay sign, all described on the register as being “for the Lidl food store”.

What the store would be

The figures come from Lidl’s own public consultation site for the scheme, which the company ran before applying. It gives a 1,457 square metre sales area including a bakery and longer tills with dual packing, customer toilets, 120 car parking spaces of which 7 are disabled bays and 10 parent and child bays, cycle parking, rooftop solar panels, and around 40 jobs.

Lidl already trades in the borough. Its store finder lists branches at Castle Trading Estate, Southampton Road, Portchester and at Speedfields Park, Newgate Lane, Fareham. Segensworth would be the third.

Seven conditions, one signed off

A permission is not the end of it. Fareham attached conditions that have to be discharged before or during construction, and Lidl has lodged seven separate applications to do that. Only one has been decided so far.

Condition discharge applications for the Segensworth Lidl Table of the seven condition discharge applications lodged against planning permission P slash 25 slash 1272 slash FP. Condition 25, foul water drainage, was approved on 6 August 2026. Condition 6 boundary treatments, condition 12 construction environment management plan, condition 14 habitat management and monitoring plan, condition 17 lighting strategy, condition 18 surface water drainage scheme and the biodiversity net gain condition are all still under consideration. Six of the seven conditions are still open Condition discharge applications against Lidl's permission P/25/1272/FP, as recorded on 13 August 2026 Ref Condition Status DP/D25, foul water drainageApproved 6 Aug 2026 DP/A17, lighting strategyUnder consideration DP/B6, boundary treatmentsUnder consideration DP/C12, construction environment management planUnder consideration DP/EBiodiversity net gainUnder consideration DP/F18, surface water drainage schemeUnder consideration DP/G14, habitat management and monitoring planUnder consideration Source: Fareham Borough Council planning case tracker, applications P/25/1272/DP/A to DP/G. Graphic by Fareham News
What Lidl still has to satisfy the council on before the store can be finished.

Condition 25, foul water drainage, was discharged on 6 August. Still open are the lighting strategy, boundary treatments, the construction environment management plan, biodiversity net gain, the surface water drainage scheme and a habitat management and monitoring plan. Three of the six are about water, ecology or habitat, which is what you would expect on a site this close to the Meon valley and the Solent’s protected coastline.

What it means for you

Nobody has published an opening date, and no source we can check gives one. Lidl has not announced a construction start and the council’s register does not record one, so treat any date you see elsewhere as speculation until the company says it itself.

What is fixed is the shape of the thing: a full-size discount supermarket with 120 spaces on the Southampton Road side of Segensworth, in an area currently served mainly by the retail parks at Whiteley and the stores in Fareham town centre. If you want to follow it, the council’s case tracker records every condition discharge as it is decided; searching the site address brings up the whole file. We track the borough’s bigger decisions on our Fareham planning page, and the traffic effects of Southampton Road works on our roadworks and travel page.