Plans for railway station car park entrance given the green light
It is part of a wider project to redevelop the land around the main building. The entrance is located in Collier Lane, off Court Square.
Members of Cumberland Council's planning committee met at the Civic Centre in Carlisle on Wednesday (February 19) to consider the planning application.
Stephen Daniel, a planning officer at the council, told members that the entrance would be widened, with part of a sandstone wall removed to enable better access.
The report states: 'The Court Square public realm works include the relocation of all Network Rail staff parking to the car park to the front of the station, with the car park also being used for parking for those with disabilities.
'Access to this car park would be via the archway to Collier Lane or from Crown Street, with egress being via Crown Street.
'To enable the required vehicle access into the car park area a section of the stone boundary wall, including a red sandstone pier, would need to be demolished and these works require Listed Building Consent.
'The existing sandstone would be carefully removed, salvaged and re-used to erect a new sandstone wall adjacent to the widened access.
'The stonework that forms the existing red sandstone pier would be carefully removed and reused within the reconstructed wall at a reduced height.
'The proposals also show a brick pier that adjoins the rear of Carlisle Station Hotel being demolished and the rendered wall that it is attached to being made good.'
Councillor Roger Dobson (Corby and Hayton, Lib Dems) said: 'I think this is very straightforward.'
When it was put to the vote it was unanimously supported by the members of the planning committee.
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