A PLANNING application has been submitted to Wiltshire Council for permission to demolish an old service station in Durrington.

The plans, submitted by James Hay Pension Trustees Ltd, would see the the old service station at The Packway, demolished, followed by the construction of a new building containing two new retail units and “associated external works”.

The application site lies to the north of The Packway, west of its junction with Wood Road.

The application does not state what will be going into the units if the planning application is approved, but says “being relatively small retail units it is expected that the retail used would be confined to ‘convenience’ type outlets”.

The opening hours proposed for the site are 7am to 11pm, seven days a week.

The Sequential and Impact Test adds: “The primary role of this particular site and the proposals is to serve the current development taking place around Amesbury, Durrington, Bulford and Larkhill.

“Currently 734 dwellings are being built to the north, east and south of the application site.

“The proposed convenience outlets will serve passing motorists on the The Packway, as well as footfall from the very large number of properties being constructed in the area.”

The site would also include 19 car parking spaces.

The sale of petrol on the site stopped in November 1994, and in November 2004 the underground fuel tanks were decommissioned and removed.

Since then the premises has been used as a general workshop for the servicing and repairing of motor vehicles, and is currently vacant.

Comments on the application are invited until Friday, March 20.

To view the application in full or to comment on it, go to wiltshire.gov.uk/planning-applications-search, application number 20/00801/FUL