Cut-price supermarket chain Lidl has been granted permission to build a £70m UK headquarters in Tolworth – a move which it says will bring up to 5,000 new jobs to London.

New jobs expected to be created through Lidl’s plans to relocate its headquarters to Tolworth in a four storey landmark building were largely welcomed during a one-day consultation event this week.

Children who used a motorcycle track in Tolworth were left in tears as it closed following supermarket chain Lidl’s £10m purchase of the land.