Plans for indoor trampoline park in Wrexham refused

Plans to convert a vacant warehouse in Wrexham into a trampoline park have been rejected amid concerns about “inadequate parking provision”.

In November 2018 Wrexham.com reported that an application submitted to Wrexham Council proposed that Unit Six on Whitegate Industrial Estate became home to the town’s first trampoline centre.

The plans included using the 2368 square metre space of the warehouse in full – creating 16 full time jobs and 30 part time jobs created.

Planning documents submitted at the time explained that a number of properties across the county borough – including space on both Llay and Wrexham Industrial Estates – had been considered to house the trampoline park, with many people commenting over the years that various empty space in the town would be suitable for such use.

Three town centre units were also considered, such as the former TK Maxx on Island Green, Henblas Square and the former Boots store on Regent Street. However these were rejected due to the “eaves being too low” and the building being unsuitable, due to the nature of people bouncing high.

The documents added that “the facility will provide a multi-faceted activity environment for the public, which will encourage exercise thus contributing to increasing the physical activity of the general public using the facility and therefore implicitly providing a benefit to health.”

However in a delegated decision made by the council’s Head of Environment and Planning, Lawrence Isted, the plans have been refused due to inadequate parking provision.

Mr Isted states: “Inadequate provision is made for the safe movement of customers arriving both by car and on foot and, as a result of inadequate parking provision the development will increase levels of indiscriminate parking in the vicinity of the site to the detriment of the safety of all users to the Industrial Estate.”

(Top pic: A trampoline park inside a warehouse style unit, image via selected by us and not from the public planning document)