Homes plan could leave Bridgnorth with one petrol station
Friday 25th November 2011, 10:59AM GMT.
Bridgnorth could be left with just one petrol station if plans to knock down a landmark garage to build 58 old peoples’ homes get the go ahead.
The plans for Rutters Garage in Salop Street, which would create up to 15 jobs, are expected to be approved by planners on Tuesday.
But Tony Edwards, managing director of Rutters Garage Ltd, which rents the site, today confirmed that while he was in negotiations over two locations to move to, he would not be selling fuel.
He said they were only just breaking even with fuel sales and the site was no longer suitable.
And he said it could cost about £250,000 to replace the ageing petrol banks and lines, which are about 45-years-old.
The garage business would have to move by November next year, leaving Bridgnorth with just the Esso petrol station in Low Town. Any approval for the plans by McCarthy and Stone for the extra care accommodation would be subject to a legal agreement for the provision of a pedestrian crossing on Salop Street.
A separate application to demolish a nearby existing house and garage is also up for approval.
They have attracted an objection from Bridgnorth Civic Society which says it is not happy with the size of the development and the demolition of 31 Salop Street. The society says in a report by planning officers to the meeting:
“This very decent house, dating from the middle of the 19th Century or earlier, is the only older building in this stretch of Salop Street.
“The loss would significantly detract from the character and appearance of this section of the conservation area.”
The society says it is not against the change of use to sheltered housing.
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It was not good enough for planning permission to be granted a few years ago for a children’s play barn just above Rutter’s Garage, so to give permission for Old peoples accommodation would be hypercritical when they would have to cross a busy main road, what is more dangerous a parent driving there children into a car park or an OAP trying to cross a main road with there Zimmer frame, it would be more appropriate to sell it to Tesco or Sainsbury and keep it has a filling station that way Bridgnorth retains two filling stations.
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The que at Tesco garage is bad enough now, god knows what it will be like with just one petrol station in Bridgnorth, I always use Rutters.
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