RIVERSIDE SURGERY'S EXTENSION PLAN IN BROUGHTON APPROVED

Riverside Surgery has been granted permission to extend premises in Broughton that are allied to the Barnard Avenue centre in Brigg.
The Broughton surgery, on Brooklands Avenue, having seen its patient list grow significantly in recent years requires additional consulting rooms.
North Lincolnshire Council has now approved plans to create an extension to the rear to accommodate these, as well as remodelling the internal space.
It is intended to create a more inviting reception area - a new reception desk being "twinned with the pharmacy."
Planners have given approval to change the use of a domestic garden to form the extension, plus additional car parking, erection of a single-storey rear extension (including part demolition of an existing building) and associated external works.
Broughton Town Council objected "due to insufficient parking for patients as a result of the extension."
However, a North Lincolnshire Council officer's report said: "Highways have considered the proposal and raise no objection on highway safety  grounds  or  in  relation  to  the  level  of  parking  provision.  Conditions  are recommended in  relation  to  the  vehicular  access,  parking  and  turning  spaces  being provided,  for  a  travel  plan  to  be  submitted  and  for  the  submission  of  a  phased  traffic management  plan  (to  include  the  construction  and  demolition  of  the  building).  It  is  considered  that  the  proposal  will  not  be  detrimental  to  highway  safety  provided  that  the conditions recommended by Highways are imposed on any planning permission."