ASDA will open a new store in Huddersfield – by the end of July.

But negotiations for another larger supermarket in the town remain deadlocked after two years of negotiation.

Asda announced yesterday that it would convert the Netto on Carr Pit Road in Aspley.

The store will close next Saturday and will re-open two weeks later after a £500,000 refit.

The Asda supermarket will stock more than 10,000 grocery products – four times as many as Netto.

The Aspley store is one of 147 Nettos across the country which will be converted into Asda outlets.

Staff at the store will be re-employed after a week-long retraining course.

Eleven new posts will be created at the site. Anyone who wishes to apply for a position can visit www.asda.com/jobs

New store manager Mark Caine said: “Despite being a small Asda supermarket we think customers are going to be delighted with the new store. We hope they will be bowled over by the range and there will be no price premium for anything we sell.

“The new supermarket will also boast PayPoint, lottery and cash machines.”

But Asda is struggling to win planning permission for a larger store nearby.

The retailer wants to build a 49,000sq ft store on land currently occupied by Thomas Broadbent and Sons between the ring road, Chapel Hill, Milford Street and Queen Street South.

The engineering firm won planning permission last July to move all its operations on to the eastern side of Queen Street South next to the former Examiner building.