A NURSERY in Thelwall has applied for permission to expand its capacity.

Cheshire Day Nursery Thelwall has submitted a planning application to Warrington Borough Council asking for permission to provide more places at the nursery.

According to planning documents, the site currently operates across two units, with a combined capacity of 82 places.

Now, however, the nursery wants to expand to a combined offering of 130 places.

The application requests that previous caps on the number of places on offer be scrapped, as this would allow the nursery to maximise the places it can offer due to the size of its site.

As per the design and access statement for the application: "We request the individual capacity restriction of 45 children applied in 2005 for Unit B Thelwall New Road Industrial Estate which was subsequently increased to 50 children in 2007 and the capacity restriction of 32 children applied in 2017 for partial use of Unit A Balfour House, Thelwall New Road Industrial Estate is removed.

"[This would create] a new combined capacity to include utilising the remainder/unused space in Unit A Balfour House, Thelwall New Road Industrial Estate and Unit B Thelwall New Road Industrial Estate is increased to 130 children in line with the actual space available within our nursery."

Concluding, the document reads: "The proposal is for unutilised space within the existing nursery be used to accommodate the demand for more nursery spaces at The Cheshire Day Nursery Thelwall and to remove the existing capacity caps on previous planning applications when the property was smaller.

"There are no other material considerations which would justify a refusal of planning permission."

This application was received by Warrington Borough Council in January, and was validated this month - a decision is due by December 7, and the public consultation period ends on November 3.