A FORMER health centre could make way for much-needed extra town centre parking for Burnley shoppers and workers.
Town hall bosses have drawn up plans to bulldoze the old St Nicholas’ health centre, Saunder Bank, to create 61 extra spaces for vehicles.
Eighteen spots will be gener-ated courtesy of an extension to the Parker Lane short-stay car park and another 43 will occupy the former health centre site.
In recent years around 600 short-stay spaces have been lost in the town centre, with the development of the St Peter’s health centre and the loss of the Edward Street and Massey Street facilities.
Another 450 spaces are to disappear when the old Pioneer Co-op site, off Curzon Street, is redeveloped for The Oval shopping centre.
Planning agent Scott McKavett says in a report to the council’s development control department: “As the majority of the St Nicholas health centre site was allocated to staff car parking at ground level, the process to convert the area into a short-stay public car park should be relatively straightforward.”
The exit and entry arrangements for the old health centre will remain the same for the proposed car park.
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