South Shore Primary Care Centre on Lytham Road, Blackpool submits plans for 50 space car park

A scheme to create extra spaces at South Shore Primary Care Centre on Lytham Road was granted planning permission back in May 2020, but has now been lodged again as it had to be acted upon within three years.

The fresh plans are proposing the same development of 50 new parking spaces on an a piece of land which has been vacant since the St Margaret Clitherow Church was demolished.

The application has been prepared by Sunderland Peacock and Associates Ltd on behalf of Highfield Surgery and Stonyhill Medical Practice which are located in the health centre.

Extra capacity has been needed for some years to ease congestion on nearby residential roads.

Documents submitted with the application say: “Parking provision on the existing site is currently very restricted which creates implications on neighbouring roads.

“This application seeks to extend the existing NHS patient car park in order to provide maximum additional patient parking spaces and assist with congestion on Dunes Avenue.”

If approved, the car park will be an extension of an adjoining facility which has 36 spaces, with timber fencing removed to provide access.

The layout has been designed in order to maximise the number of new parking bays which can be provided for use by patients visiting the health centre.

When the previous scheme was approved, town hall planners ruled the additional 50 spaces would be enough to alleviate traffic problems on surrounding streets and approved the application using delegated powers.