NEIGHBOURS are angry at plans for a new supermarket.

Wendy Toop, 60, from Dorchester Road in Weymouth said plans put forward by Lidl Foodstore to build a larger store were unnecessary.

She said a larger store would be noisier, smellier and would mean lorries loading and unloading next to her bedroom late at night and early in the morning.

Mrs Toop said: "My husband died two years ago and I didn't want to move out.

"I have got permission to convert my garage into a granny flat and my son and daughter will move in to the main house.

"If this new supermarket goes ahead then the loading bay will be right next to my bedroom. All the rubbish bins will be moved next to my house as well.

"Why do we need a bigger store in a residential area when we already have Tesco and Safeway nearby?"

Under plans put forward by Lidl, the current supermarket would be demolished and replaced with a larger building.

Mrs Toop added that residents had complained to the store about other problems. She said: "We have had problems with the shop alarm going off and Lidl didn't do anything about it.

"We have lorries loading and unloading at 11pm and midnight and children use the ramps for skateboard practice. The noise echoes all around the area.

"Lidl say they have received no complaints from people who live around here but that is rubbish. It won't just affect me - my neighbours will suffer as well.

"When they first built the store the contractors started pulling down my fence - It's just bully-boy tactics.

Mrs Toop said that the company had offered to plant trees between the new supermarket and her house and to have the reversing signals on lorries turned off.

She said: "They can't plant the trees because they will undermine the building foundations and I don't want to clean up all the leaves."

Andy and Dawn Dalkins have lived near the present site of the loading bay on Cleveland Road since 2001.

Mrs Dalkins said: "Late at night we have had lorries parked in the bay with their refrigeration units running. The noisiest thing is the sound of the trolleys and this summer the shop alarm went off four nights in a row and no one came to turn it off.

"There was a horrible smell from the bins during the summer."

A spokesman for Lidl said the company did not wish to comment.