Plans to build new staff training facilities at a Stagecoach site in Carlisle have been approved.
Cumberland Council granted permission this week for the transport company to build an extension on the Willow Holme Industrial Estate in the city at an existing bus drivers’ office and canteen at the Stagecoach depot on Willow Holme Road.
The bus depot has been there for many years and there is an existing workshop garage building on an area of land owned by Stagecoach, plus a hard-surfaced yard used for parking.
The application said: “The application proposal involves a new-build development on further land within the applicant’s ownership to the east of the existing commercial area. This is currently a surfaced car park.”
According to the report the proposed new extension will add 8.1m to the width of the site.
Authority planning officers said: “The proposed new building is reasonably required in connection with an existing commercial land use.
“It has been carefully designed for the applicant company to meet their operational requirements and will not appear inappropriate in design terms when related to the characteristics of the site which is previously developed land being mainly a concrete parking yard area.
“There will be benefits in that there will be no material addition to traffic generation caused by the proposal, working conditions for staff at the site will be improved, also no impact on increasing flooding impact.”
