NEW BRIGG GYM GETS THE GO AHEAD

Approval has been given for a new gym in Brigg.
Planning to create four full-time and two part-time jobs, this leisure facility will be located in a new steel-framed building on what is currently vacant land now used as overflow car parking.
The location is close to the popular Smithy's Fishing Pond on the edge of the Island Carr Industrial Estate, off Bridge Street.
North Lincolnshire Council has now granted the necessary planning permission.
A design and access statement submitted to the local authority about the Baker-Smith Gym explains it is planned to erect a 20m x 12m mono-pitch steel-framed building incorporating two internal mezzanine floors. 

Gym facilities will be available to the public and members over the two floors. Car parking will be provided within the site.

A detailed report prepared on this application by council planning staff recommended that permission should be granted.
It said: "In terms of the proposed use it will be located on an industrial estate which contains a mix of uses including a gym, MOT centre, pet supplies, builders merchants, plant hire, kitchen showroom, fishing ponds with shop/café and trade counters, and given this mix it is considered the introduction of a gym will not conflict with these existing uses.
"The creation of another gym within Brigg will provide additional choice to customers in the town and competition is not a material planning issue so it won’t be assessed in this case. There is sufficient off-street parking provision shown on the supporting parking plan to serve both the existing fishing ponds and the proposed gym; this will prevent congestion on local roads and parking within the highway."