Fulham Broadway Aldi Granted All Day Licence
Store can open seven days a week until 11pm
The new supermarket is in the Fulham Broadway Retail Centre
July 17, 2025
A new Aldi has been granted permission to sell alcohol and open until 11pm seven-days-a-week.
The supermarket, which is taking on a space in the Fulham Broadway Retail Centre, had initially requested opening hours between 6am and midnight.
This was however revised following correspondence from resident groups, with the amended hours approved at a Hammersmith and Fulham Council Licensing Sub-Committee meeting on Tuesday night (15 July).
The imminent opening of an Aldi in the Broadway has been no secret, with signage and other changes to the retail unit indicating the change for some time.
According to a report compiled by council officers, an application for a new premises licence for the site was submitted in April, detailing the original hours requested.
In addition to the revised opening times, Aldi also agreed following correspondence with the Met Police to add a condition outlining particular responsibilities when Chelsea FC are playing at Stamford Bridge, which is located nearby.
Representations from the Tournay Road Neighbourhood Watch and Barclay Road Conservation Area Neighbourhood Watch induced further amendments, including only selling alcohol on the basement floor and all spirits to be displayed in a lockable cabinet.
Seven objections were submitted in total. In a representation filed before the additional condition and amended hours were agreed, the Chair of the Walham Green Ward Panel wrote that while residents were pleased the old Wilko premises will no longer be empty, they were concerned about the proposed opening and closing times and the impact on crime.
“On behalf of the ward panel members and local residents, we ask the committee to reject this application and restrict the sale of alcohol to the hours of 7am to 9pm MonSat [sic] and from noon to 6pm on Sundays,” they wrote. “As there is a church immediately next to the Aldi shopfront, it makes sense for alcohol sales on Sundays to be prohibited before noon.
“We also believe there may need to be conditions applied on sales of alcohol before and after home games at Stamford Bridge.”
One objecting resident wrote, “It will bring people inside to loiter, hang out, sleep, maybe hunker down for a few days or week, or even months. It will cause problems that more than one or two SIA guys patrolling the inside (not the outside) of the [sic] Shopping Arcade can handle.”
A supplementary agenda published ahead of the meeting detailed how following Aldi’s removal of its request for late night refreshment and further agreed conditions, such as alcohol drunk for consumption on the premises to only be sold alongside food, the police and five of the seven objectors withdrew their representations.
Another withdrew while the meeting was being broadcast, leaving one objector remaining. None spoke at the meeting.
The Aldi item was dealt with fairly swiftly by the sub-committee, largely due to the lack of objectors present.
Lisa Gilligan, Aldi’s legal counsel, said the company has 1,000 stores nationwide, a number of which are in “challenging locations”.
“We’re well used to operating near football stadiums,” she told members. “We have stores near the Emirates, near Old Trafford, and near Tottenham Hotspur Ground.”
She highlighted the amendments made to the application following correspondence with residents and the police, adding Aldi has an “unblemished enforcement record” nationally with no review applications or other issues.
Asked by Chair Cllr Mercy Umeh how Aldi will address any resident complaints, Ms Gilligan said the supermarket would do so ‘proactively’, and that the management team will be at the store to assist.
She said, “We want to work with residents and resident associations so that we’re not causing any problems so we would have very much an open and positive dialogue.”
When approached for comment, a spokesperson for Aldi directed the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) to a press release issued in May announcing its new stores.
In it, Jonathan Neale, Managing Director of National Real Estate at Aldi UK, said: “At Aldi, our goal is to ensure everyone has access to high-quality food at unbeatable prices, and we’re committed to achieving that with our ambitious store opening plans.
“We’re targeting 40 new store openings in 2025, while many of our current stores will also be getting a refresh to enhance the customer experience, meaning we can consistently offer the best value for money to even more shoppers across the UK.”
A new Wetherspoon pub, Walham Green, recently opened in the Grade-II listed former entrance building and ticket hall of Fulham Broadway station.
M&S meanwhile submitted plans in April to revamp the former Whole Foods Market on Fulham Broadway, with an opening date expected this autumn.
Ben Lynch - Local Democracy Reporter