Revised plans for a long-stay car park in Yarm have been recommended to be approved - just three months after councillors rejected them.
Southland Management put forward updated plans plans for a 34-space car park on land behind the Blue Bell pub, on the Eaglescliffe side of Yarm Bridge, in September.
Stockton Council planning officers have now recommended the scheme is given the go-ahead when the authority’s planning committee meets next Thursday.
Officals say the scheme should be given the green light, under certain conditions such as only operating between 7.30am to 6.30pm
In July, Stockton Council’s planning committee gave permission for a new long-stay car park behind Barclays Bank, off Silver Street.
But although planning officers had recommended its approval, councillors voted against the plans for the second car park - on land formerly used as a haulage yard.
They cited fears that the proposed site would require the use of others’ land which was not agreed, and that the access would be too narrow.
In the latest application to Stockton Council, Southland Management say that the site will be served by the existing access off Yarm Road.
The application reads: “The proposed car park will meet an identified need for car parking in Yarm.
“The car park has been sensitively designed and will not have a detrimental effect on the neighbouring properties or harm the character and appearance of the Conservation Area.
“The proposal complies with national and local planning policy and will provide a safe and secure public facility that is designed to a high standard.”
Following July’s planning committee decision, Cllr Mike Smith, Stockton Cabinet member for regeneration and transport, said the council would work with the applicant as the council wanted “to get the parking options in Yarm absolutely right”.
The plans for two car parks in Yarm come as part of the controversial introduction of parking charges in Yarm High Street.
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