Former Walsall hospital clinic to be demolished to make way for more parking
Plans to demolish a building at Walsall Manor Hospital used to treat diabetics to make way for more parking spaces has won the green light.
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The scheme will see an extra 52 bays installed to increase capacity to 115 at the clinic site off Pleck Road.
The conditions set by Walsall Council’s planning officers include installing a ‘visually appropriate boundary’ to prevent vehicles entering the Walsall Canal by accident during construction and once complete.
Before works commence, a surface water disposal plan, construction plan, and a hard and soft landscaping plan must be submitted to the planning officers.
Finally, no external lights must be installed without permission from Walsall Council.
The services and staff which operated from the building previously have already relocated to the main hospital campus.
The building, located across the road from the main Walsall Manor site, was built as a temporary structure and therefore had a limited lifespan.
While it already had 63 parking bays, the works will create an additional 52 spaces and 11 lampposts.
The bays will be divided up into 97 staff spaces and 18 visitor spaces.
Of these, 10 will be disabled bays and five for electric vehicles. Access will remain the same from Pleck Road and barriers will be in place operating with automatic number-plate recognition.
