A BRAND new service station with a Greggs, Burger King and Costa Coffee drive-throughs is being earmarked for land beside the A5 in Oswestry.

Shropshire Council is set to decide on whether plans for the services on the Artillery Business Park should be approved after consultation on the proposal ended this week.

The new service station would be entered directly off the roundabout for Park Hall and Whittington from the A5 with a decision expected from councillors by Thursday, June 20.

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According to a planning statement, submitted to Shropshire Council by Berrys – on behalf of applicants Evans Enterprises Limited in Park Hall – the new services would feature the three huge names in roadside refreshments.

It said: “The proposal is a full planning application for the erection of three units, two of which will be for drive-through purposes, and one as a hot food takeaway unit.

“The Burger King will be a hot food takeaway where consumption is mainly away from the location of purchase (Sui Generis).

“The other two units where Greggs is not a drive-through and Costa which although is a drive-through will sell food and drink principally to visiting member of the public where consumption of that food and drink is mostly undertaken on the premises (Use Class E(b)) with associated car parking.

“This application will deliver a floorspace of 473m-squared which is split between the proposed three units with associated car parking and landscaping.

“The established operators of these three units will be Greggs, Costa and Burger King and the scheme has been designed in accordance with their requirements.”

A design and access statement, also included with the application, added: “The two sites as owned by the applicant is some 4.3 acres, and forms part of the already developed land currently owned by the client.

“The site does not have any trees that are subject to Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs). However, the old Oswestry Hill Fort is located 1km to the West of the site.”

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Residents close to the proposal have said that diggers have been seen on-site and grass has been removed from the field where the development is expected to be sited.

However, Highways England has recommended that planning permission not be granted for at least three months to allow the applicants to submit data ‘more suited to the application’.

Historic England said, despite the proximity to the Old Oswestry Hillfort, that it did not oppose the application but asked for ‘close attention to be paid’ to the size of the development.