Work on a new 131-space car park at Burrs Country Park in Bury is to be scaled back after the council failed to secure funding. Last year Bury Council, in response to a huge increase in visitors to the park and related issues with parking, agreed plans to formalise the current overspill car park to create new off-road car parking spaces and a surfaced pavement along Woodhill Road giving pedestrian access into the park.
The approved plans said the parking bays would be surfaced with a permeable plastic geo-grid system as cars had become stuck on the field in wet weather. Bury Council said in its original planning application that this proved the current overspill facility was not fit for purpose.
However, this week a revision to scale back the agreed plans has been submitted to Bury Council. The revised proposal, states: “To reduce the extent of the geogrid parking bay surface and replace with fibrous sand (as is currently on site). “There would still be a through road and entrance and exit improvements as per the original proposals.
