A PLAN to build eight units for medical or research and development purposes on a car park off Dewhurst Road, Birchwood is set to come before Warrington planning chiefs tomorrow (Thursday).
Officers are recommending the scheme be approved – but Birchwood Town Council has lodged objections.
The car park is associated with an existing office building, Spencer House, where planning consent has already been granted for part of the building to be converted for residential use.
The car park currently has spaces for 210 vehicles, but if the scheme goes ahead this would reduce to 117.
Birchwood Town Council argues that the project would leave too few parking spaces for the number of units proposed and that this would almost inevitably result in overspill parking spilling out into the surrounding residential area and even onto Dewhurst Road itself.
However, planning officers say the area already has more parking provision than is needed, even if the partial conversion of Spencer House to residential use does not go ahead.
They say if the indiscriminate parking feared by the Town Council occurs, it will be a matter for parking enforcement.
The proposal will have no detrimental impact on the local highway network, they say.
Members of the borough council’s development management committee will rule on the scheme tomorrow
