Short-lived Hazel Grove park-and-ride to become ambulance hub
Stockport Council has drawn up proposals to redevelop the 3.4-acre car park off Buxton Road less than a decade after the Stagecoach facility opened.
The existing park-and-ride facility opened in 2015 in a bid to ease congestion on the A6. However, it is described in a planning statement as “underutilised and not commercially viable”.
The council has submitted a pair of applications for the two-phase redevelopment of the site.
The phase one application seeks full consent for the creation of a 10,000 sq ft ambulance station and associated ambulance, staff and visitor parking on the 1.5-acre eastern portion of the site.
Stockport is also requesting outline permission for phase two, which would see the station expanded into a hub on the remaining two acres.
The facility would be operated by North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust. The Trust will relocate from Travis Brow in Stockport town centre, which is “dated and spatially constrained”, according to planning consultant Paul Butler Associates.
It is envisaged that the phase one will be completed by 2024, with the second phase following around 2029.
Aew Architects is leading on design and Urban Green is the landscape consultant for the project and is also advising on ecology, biodiversity net gain, and arboriculture. CBRE is the project manager and Kennedy Redford is the structural engineer.
To learn more about the project, search for reference number DC/088269 on Stockport Council’s planning portal.
Oh not. I use that park n ride regularly. Just the way to avoid the A6 jams. I can’t believe it isn’t better used. Fantastic 192 service to connect with it.
By Anonymous
St Christopher house site was to be new garage Hope st is good place central and near motirway . Just use the spare land next door that was poss for police motorway post
By Dave
Personally think it should be a Metrolink Park and Ride with a station on the viaduct.
By Anonymous
Completely useless, no good for those living on the north side of Stockport, not central enough.
Maybe if the busses Stockport bound went into Stepping Hill hospital it might be used a lot more.
By John Wood
Very much welcomed, very exciting
By Mr D
Not a good idea. Leave it as it is.
By Robinson
Some people use it when they get bus 192 toManchester to work,visiting Manchester or Manchester royal infirmary . Other people will use it also. As a link to other places .
By Carolyn Haslam
Needs spaces available for park and ride
By Carolyn Haslam
Excellent idea to link it to the Metrolink and have a station on the viaduct. This should be considered seriously.
By Cav
Leave it be. Sick of all the over development. Trying to soend tax payers money again. How about using that money to fix the footpaths properly!!
By Anonymous
We need a metro link to get the roads clearer
By Anonymous
what’s the point? it’s no use having ambulances when they’re queuing up at the hospital because they can’t hand over patients due to understaffed A &E ?
By Susan Fergusson
We still need a park & ride what is the point of another Ambulance station when the ambulances already have a congestion at the Hospitals
By Anonymous
Parking is impossible at Stepping Hill Hospital because if the building work , the Park and Ride is the only option at the moment .
The hospital parking won’t be any better when the building work is finally completed .
Can the park and ride space be reduced to accommodate the ambulance station?
By Anonymous
If it’s anything like the new houses they we’re putting up near park and ride it won’t happen what a mess they have made of them it’s scandalous
By Anonymous
I use the park & ride a lot for the 192 and will be sorry to see it go
By Christine Dyer
Good, something worth while coming out of a white elephant !!
By Anonymous
Can’t park and ride as well as Ambulance service be on same site but obviously be with separate entrances and exits.We need park and ride for the hospital with a dedicated shuttle service to and from Stepping Hill please.
By Anonymous
So where is Stockports Councils commitment to a Greener plant
By B Thorley
Can’t understand why ,Park and ride one of the best ideas Stockport Council came up with
By Anonymous
I used to work from that site as it was a BT depot..The world moves on..Guess the old site in Travis Brow will be part of the Manchester mayor development..Oops Cheshire.Lol.
By Patrick
In light of the Lyme Car Park planning application, this appears to be very short-sighted. Rather than entertaining ‘overspill’ parking areas or the tabled application, how about we retain the P&R, be stricter on advising Lyme Park visitors to use the P&R (via TfGM digital info boards?) because the car park is full, and try harder to make sustainable transport the natural choice?
By Active Travel Trev
Please, please leave some area of the site for hospital parking
By Anonymous
As a pensioner I use this park n ride often . Surely room for both services
By Carol Hope
Totally disgusting idea aand completely lacking in foresight. The P&R was specifically to get people to use the bus into Stockport and Manchester and leave their cars in that car park!! What a disaster being planned by our senseless Stockport planners who obviously have no idea of the traffic situation in this area. Never known such crass ideas when our traffic problem is growing every day. WAKE UP SMBC and face the REAL WORLD we have in this traffic disaster area!!
By Beryl Hatton
Driving cars makes people angry. Case in point: this comments section. Please leave your car at home and go for a walk – reconnect with nature, get some exercise. It’ll do you good.
By Anonymous
What a ridiculous idea to get rid of the P&R at Hazel GroveIt is impossible to park at the hospital & will get even harder when the new departments are finally opened. People going to the hospital are sick & don’t need the further stress of driving round looking for a parking space when they probably have an appointment.
By Wh Hill is impossible & will get worse when the new extension at A&E is finally opened .
What are we supposed to do to get to Stepping Hospital when the council are making it so difficult to park for patients who have appointments ,at least theP&R at Hazel Grove gives you a chance to get to the Hospital.
By Anonymous
So what happens now do we just park on the roads nearby
By Anonymous
My wife and I are Senior Citizens and live on the outer area of Hazel Grove. We are not to good on our feet any more. So we use the P & R to go to the Hospital and Stockport quite regularly, especially after our regular Bus was severely curtailed. Last time we used it there must have been at least 60 cars parked, that’s 60 cars less on the A6. SMBC need to seriously rethink this proposal and have word with the Greater Manchester Mayor who is trying to get more people on the New Bee buses. They are coming to Stockport next year. Stockport have already built a new Transport Hub in the centre now think about the public that they’re hoping will service it.
Putting a new Ambulance complex in Hazel Grove will merely reverse the direction of Ambulances on the more congested A6. The idea is very short sightedness.
By Leslie Isherwood
If the full general parking is lost it will be a blow to a lot of people. Hope there is still some public parking. Stockport resident
By Anonymous
What about people getting to Stockport and Manchester? Where will they be able to catch the 192 bus?
By Anonymous
will we still have a 192 bus from there?
By Anonymous
Really disappointed to hear about the park and ride closed. We are in our eighties and just don’t want the agony of finding car parks in Stockport and Manchester and strongly believe that as many cars as possible should be kept off the roads to reduce the pollution and the effects it has on people.
By Carol
We need this facility, Cannot drive into Stockport. Road too busy.
By Lindsay Jean Wilson