Planning permission is being sought for a new petrol filling station with a McDonald’s and a coffee shop at Pump Lane on the Caister Bypass near Great Yarmouth.
Plans were first submitted to Great Yarmouth Borough Council by FPC Income and Growth PLC in May and were updated in September.
The development, which includes EV spaces and jet washing facilities, would create around 165 jobs across the petrol station, McDonald’s and coffee shop.
There are some concerns over the plans. In a report filed this month (December), the highways department at Norfolk Council says the access into the site is in conflict with the existing junction of Pump Lane and Yarmouth Road. “These two junctions should be combined to form a single junction, either by diverting Pump Lane onto the site’s access road or serving the site from Pump Lane and providing carriageway widening to Pump Lane at the access to 7.3m. A single right hand turn lane for both Pump Lane and the site access would be required,” it says.
The department also says the EV charging provision is below the Council’s guidelines which are that at least 10% of all spaces should have active EV charging facilities, with a further 20% to include passive provision (the underground infrastructure to provide more EV charging facilities in the future).
Other comments from the Council are that the access road is too wide; the kerb radii is excessive; a foot path needs adding to help access the coffee shop; the existing footpath on Yarmouth Road along the site’s frontage should be widened to 3m to provide a shared footway/cycleway; there needs to be more parking for the coffee shop including the provision of undercover cycle parking.
In addition, Anglian Water has objected to the plans because two large sewer pipes cross the site and cannot be built over; and Essex and Suffolk Water is concerned about the entrance sitting on a “strategic water main”.
