Developers have applied for permission for a temporary car park in Witham while awaiting a decision on plans to build a multi-storey car park.
Braintree Council is currently carrying out consultations on plans to build a 700-space multi-storey car park on the site of an existing 300 space temporary car park in Cut Throat Lane.
The application cannot be put before the council until all consultations have been completed but in the meantime businessman Peter Tuck, who is behind the multi-storey proposal, has applied to use land adjacent to the existing car park as a temporary car park.
He said that if the plans for the multi-storey were approved temporary car parking space would be required while construction is under way.
Residents in and around Albert Road have already complained that the proposed car park will tower over their houses and that a fastfood restaurant included in the plans would create more litter and anti-social behaviour.
Witham Town Council has given its support to the car parking proposals but the district council has the final say
Published Monday, April 14, 2003
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