Flats plan for multi-storey car park submitted

Plans to turn a town's multi-storey car park into flats have been submitted.

A planning application to build 114 apartments at the Midway car park in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, has been lodged by developer Capital and Centric.

Under the scheme, most of the existing five-level structure would be kept with cuts made into the slabs to create a central atrium and open air walkways.

An extension would also be built on the rooftop where some of the flats would be created.

Each of the homes will have a recessed balcony or terrace providing “significant elements of private amenity” for future residents, Capital and Centric said.

The flats would provide much needed housing in the town centre, they added.

The Midway car park was built in the 1960s but is due to close in the new year when the new 468-space Castle car park in Ryecroft opens in January.

The Midway scheme, along with the regeneration projects at Ryecroft and York Place, are being brought forward by Capital and Centric after the borough council secured £35m of government funding.

Planners with the authority are due to make a decision on the Midway application by 22 January.

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.

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