Huge new service area planned for M5

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bristolpost.co.uk/news/loca … ed-2510953

Huge M5 service station planned with restaurants, roof garden and 1,200 jobs created
Across 85 acres of land at junction 24 at Bridgwater, motorists could soon be stretching their legs and grabbing a bite at a ‘distinctive’ new services.

Images show plans for a new M5 service station which promises to be “unlike any other”.

Along with cafes, restaurants and toilets with a modern design, there will be garden spaces, allowing motorists to enjoy a peaceful break or give the kids and family pets a place to play.

A path wrapping around the building will ascend to a rooftop garden, and there will be a large garden space around the service station.

And of course, it will aim to be eco-friendly.

The ambitious designs are at the application stage and refer to 85 acres of land east of junction 24 for Bridgwater.

The car park will contain 324 parking bays, 17 disabled spaces and eight motorbike spaces

And how many spaces for HGVs? A whopping 39! :stuck_out_tongue:

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… all of which will be filled with wobble boxes between April and September.

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And looking at the plans, they’ll have to reverse out of the bays, which obviously means the taliban will have to blind side. What could go wrong :laughing:

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I reckon…

The first lamp post will be knocked over inside of a week. As well as smashed kerbs, great big ruts in any piece of grass and the stench of widdle all over the new lorry park.

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Looks like they expect us to drive into spaces and reverse out?

Don’t worry Maoster, caravan’s have loads of room in the summer:

Alongside this, there will be 39 spaces for HGVs, 10 caravan parking bays and eight coach spaces.

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I’ve never seen more than 10 caravans on the M5 heading to Cornwall in the summer, so it will be fine

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1200 jobs in a services?

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mrginge:

Looks like they expect us to drive into spaces and reverse out?

Don’t worry Maoster, caravan’s have loads of room in the summer:

Alongside this, there will be 39 spaces for HGVs, 10 caravan parking bays and eight coach spaces.

Don’t worry about it the “experts” on £100K pa and their computer say yes. The requirements to be a member of the team working on the plans are: 1) a signed up member of Common Purpose 2) a member of the Flat Earth Society. 3) A PHD awarded following a thesis arguing that bumble bees cannot fly. 3) never held a driving licence. :imp:

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Darkside:
1200 jobs in a services?

1200 individuals engaged on zero-hours contracts.

Had the same when Sainsbury’s was planning to build a supermarket near where I lived. They promised ‘hundreds of jobs for locals’. When I questioned how many people were needed to staff the place at any one time it emerged that in their calculations a ‘job’ was 16 hrs a week max ie 2 days a week.

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By the description and plan that’s similar to Gloucester. Wonder if it’s same people? Wonder if it’s same prices!!!

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That Gloucester farm shop services is utter nonsense.
I stopped there once, never again!
Couldn’t even buy normal milk without buying some yogurt knitters special and needing to remortgage

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Oops just reread newspaper report. Artists impression shows EG above door so another Euro garages site full of overpriced fast food outlets.Seem to remember when he/they started expanding looking after us was part of their mission statement. That’s going well isn’t it?

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“a new M5 service station which promises to be “unlike any other””. Somerset Live reports motorists will expect to see cafes, restaurants, toilets and seating areas.

That’s innovative…:slight_smile:

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Santa:
“a new M5 service station which promises to be “unlike any other””. Somerset Live reports motorists will expect to see cafes, restaurants, toilets and seating areas.

That’s innovative…:slight_smile:

HGV drivers expect to see the usual way overpriced crap!

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Beau Nydel:

Santa:
“a new M5 service station which promises to be “unlike any other””. Somerset Live reports motorists will expect to see cafes, restaurants, toilets and seating areas.

That’s innovative…:slight_smile:

HGV drivers expect to see the usual way overpriced crap!

Seeing as the proposer is Euro Garages you can guarantee everything will be overpriced, need a second mortgage to buy a sandwich in their establishments.

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I wouldt worry to much as the nimbys will protest. And as with the planed extension to sandbach. Us truck drivers will get blamed for briging in migrants in our trucks

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I’m assuming the existing Moto J24 service area will be replaced / redeveloped?

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del trotter:

Beau Nydel:

Santa:
“a new M5 service station which promises to be “unlike any other””. Somerset Live reports motorists will expect to see cafes, restaurants, toilets and seating areas.

That’s innovative…:slight_smile:

HGV drivers expect to see the usual way overpriced crap!

Seeing as the proposer is Euro Garages you can guarantee everything will be overpriced, need a second mortgage to buy a sandwich in their establishments.

Same people as Monmouth then, which should mean a Subway and Greggs on site :sunglasses: = lorry driver grub and coffee at lorry driver prices :laughing:

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Cosmic:
I’m assuming the existing Moto J24 service area will be replaced / redeveloped?

On second thoughts, perhaps they will retain separate northbound and southbound service areas.
But the new one still won’t be big enough.

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As a regular M5 user, I just use msa.s on there for shower, bog and a Maccy/Greggs coffee, so not really fussed how ‘‘Innovative’’ :unamused: it is or it isn’t tbh. :neutral_face:
I bet the prices for truck parking sure as hell aint ‘‘Innovative’’ anyway.