{"id":256608,"date":"2025-11-11T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256608\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:22:09","slug":"plans-to-extend-peterboroughs-werrington-health-centre-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256608\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to extend Peterborough&#8217;s Werrington Health Centre withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The extension at the centre, which has a pharmacy and an opticians, would have had consultant rooms and a medical theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scheme would also have included new ductwork, a raised flatroof and gable, and a two-metre (6.5-ft) high fence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its statement, the neighbourhood council added: &#8220;It is surprising that the current application has not referred to the obvious car parking problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There has been no attempt to address this problem, to alleviate any concerns nor to make any reference to Werrington Neighbourhood Plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the planning application must not be considered until &#8220;the applicant has successfully acknowledged and addressed this problem&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The local highways authority was also worried about parking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the centre did not have &#8220;sufficient&#8221; parking, which had &#8220;resulted in unsafe parking practices and an increase in on-street parking along Church Street&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were also objections from the city council&#8217;s drainage officer and tree officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The extension at the centre, which has a pharmacy and an opticians, would have had consultant rooms and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-256608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}