Coventry retail park's car park change that everyone will notice

Changes are proposed to the car park at the Gallagher Retail Park in Coventry
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A Coventry retail park plans to repurpose some of its car park for specific visitors. The Gallagher Retail Park has already been given planning permission to make changes to its car park to add electric vehicle (EV) charging spaces.

The green light was given last November but now the site wants to change the location of the four charging spaces. This will mean reconfiguring the car park.

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It will also see the installation of four upstands, a feeder pillar and cable, lighting column, eight bollards and associated landscaping adjustments. A site location plan was included in the planning application made to Coventry City Council.

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It said: "It is proposed six existing parking spaces, within the existing car park, will be repurposed as four EV charging bays. It is noted that access is gained via the existing car park.

"It is proposed that six of the parking spaces will be converted to allow for four commercial EV charging points under the ownership of bp Pulse. Hence, the existing parking provision will be reduced by a net two spaces from a localised total of 111 spaces.

"This represents a loss of approximately 1.8 per cent of the parking stock immediately surrounding the site. However, there is significant additional parking within the wider retail park amounting to several hundred spaces.

"Hence, the loss of two spaces will be much less a percentage loss when considering the wider parking stock in the retail park. Hence, the net loss of two parking spaces is very low and, on that basis, it is anticipated the effect of the net loss in parking provision would not be discernible.

"Due to the location of the retail park in an area close to major roads and other retail and industrial units and availability of residual parking capacity, it is not anticipated the net loss of two parking spaces would result in any parking overspill into nearby residential areas."

The plan is currently pending consideration by the planning team at the city council.