Rushcliffe Borough Council has approved expansion plans for our Esso petrol station on Loughborough Road.
The single story extension at Ruddington Service Station will allow them to introduce a bakery, an extra toilet and a storeroom, whilst creating more floor space for the retail side of the business (see below). There will also be five extra car parking spaces behind the premises. There’s no new proposal to increase the operating hours after previous applications were refused.
Extra landscaping has been agreed to try to minimise any ongoing disruption to nearby residents who were unhappy with the plans. Adjoining properties have complained of anti-social behaviour by some of the site’s less considerate customers and out of hours visitors – and said they regularly have to remove discarded food and drinks packaging from their properties, despite the litter bins there.
The filling station has been run by Euro Garages since 2014 when they carried out a refurbishment of the facilities to create a bigger shop, the new cashpoint and even an 11 seater branch of the fast food outlet “Subway”.
{Text courtesy of Ruddington Parish Council}
UPDATE APRIL 2019
We can report that construction has now begin – shown in the photograph below.
