A&G Hand Car Wash and Valeting on Barrack Road in Christchurch could be demolished for flats

A Well-known automobile wash in Christchurch could be closed down and demolished to make way for an apartment block.

A&G Hand Automobile Wash and Valeting, in Barrack Road, has obtained a host of 5-star online opinions from consumers, some of whom vacation miles to stop by.

There are usually queues of automobiles waiting around to get in – but that could stop if developer Rother Homes Ltd is provided acceptance from BCP Council to demolish it.

The corporation would like to make 34 flats on the internet site consisting of 28 one-bed room and 6 two-bed room apartments, together with bin and cycle storage.

An outline preparing submission explained the current 1-storey constructing at 164-166 Barrack Road as obtaining “no architectural merit”.

It mentioned it also created a “significant amount” of visitors on a “prime transportation corridor”.

Rother Qualities argued Barrack Road was already “significantly congested”, which the current car or truck clean exacerbates.

The application claimed the new, three-storey enhancement, which will have a fourth storey established again on a corner of the constructing, will “enhance the avenue scene by giving higher-quality household dwellings for a blend of occupiers”.

There is no parking supplied but, according to the programs, inhabitants will have “excellent” entry to public transportation, with bus stops exterior and the railway station a “short walk away”.

The software has captivated 1 objection so far with a community resident complaining: “Yet again, an application which will clog the location with more and additional automobiles, and congestion.

“Where is everybody going to park? Exactly where are the areas in the schools, GP surgical procedures? Barrack Street is by now gridlocked most of the time, avoiding emergency provider vehicles from finding as a result of.

“Will all the neighborhood facet streets be capable to cope with the more parking? No, they will not.

“A lot of are small houses without off street parking, so present inhabitants will have to park somewhere else.”

BCP Council is set to make a determination soon after the deadline for community comments on 1st May possibly. Additional aspects will have to be approved before any get the job done can begin.