Car wash seeks to reposition substation and add up to 12 EV charging bays

Summary

This is a non-material amendment — a small change to a planning permission that was already granted. The applicant wants to move a substation and an electrical cabinet to a different position on the site, and add up to 12 electric vehicle charging bays. The site is an existing car wash. The proposed changes stay within the site boundary. No new buildings are involved. Eslington Primary School is a few minutes' walk away, and there is one noise-sensitive property within 300 metres of the site. Because this is an amendment to an already-approved scheme, the council only needs to decide whether the changes are minor enough to count as non-material. The bigger planning questions were settled when the original application was approved.