You might remember that a public meeting was held last year at the United Reformed Church to discuss the continued use of the former BP garage on Burnt Ash Road as a car wash.

The general feeling of those at the meeting was that the car wash provided a good service, and was much preferable to the site being unoccupied, but it’s current appearance was poor and the site needed to be tidied up.

After much chasing up by your councillors, the application to continue use of the site as a car wash will be considered by Planning Committee A this Thursday, 28th February (7.30pm at the Town Hall).

The planning department have recommended that permission is granted, subject to several conditions - regarding hours of operation, that no car sales take place on the premises; that the lighting, signage and fencing is improved (and proposals approved by the Council) and that a refuse store is provided on site. You can read the report which is going to the committee here.

Please do let us know if you have any comments, or if you plan to attend the planning committee meeting.