SUPERMARKET wagons will no longer be taking up spaces meant for shoppers, bosses have pledged.

Aldi in Bolton Road, Westhoughton, has agreed to talk to its contractors about where they park after complaints that wagons were parking across as many as eight spaces during busy periods.

MP Chris Green and Conservative Cllr Zoe Kirk-Robinson joined forces to confront Aldi about the issue.

Mr Green wrote to Aldi raising residents' concerns and in a response the company reassured him that the site manager has informed contractors to not use the car park as a delivery drop off point or to park their vehicles.

They also confirmed plans to open a new public car park in Library Street later this month.

Mr Green said: "Although I welcome the Aldi development, it should not be coming at the expense of local residents and businesses whilst the site is being built.

“Bolton Council have once again shown that they have not thought through the implications of another development, which has had a major knock on effect on parking in Westhoughton.

“I am however pleased to see that Aldi has listened to the concerns of local residents and businesses and issued an apology.

“I hope that an improvement in the availability in car parking spaces on the Bolton Road public car park is seen soon and if this isn’t seen, I urge residents to get in touch with me so I can raise this again with Aldi and Bolton Council.”

Cllr Kirk-Robinson added: “In the run-up to Christmas there will be even more people are using cars to get into town for their shopping.

“While Bolton council should have foreseen this problem and taken steps to sort it before it happened, I very much welcome the swift response from Aldi to remedy the issue.”