DEVELOPERS have shelved a plan for an office block in Birchwood a week before it was set to be thrown out – only to submit a fresh building bid.

Capital Provincial is behind a scheme to build a five-storey office block.

As previously reported in the Warrington Guardian, councillors turned down the application at the last planning meeting in January.

Concerned about the impact of 3,000 extra road journeys on the routes in Birchwood, members of the development control committee said they wanted to refuse the scheme and finalise their reasons at a meeting due to be held on Wednesday night as the Warrington Guardian went to press.

But Capital Provincial, the London based private developers behind schemes such as the Victoria Buildings in Stockton Heath, has pulled those plans and submitted a slightly amended plan.

This includes a bus shelter but on a road where there is no bus route.

The amended plan is now likely to go before the committee in March.

The application, for land at Stanford House, is close to Carphone Warehouse and is expected to bring hundreds of jobs to the area.

However, it is an area where many residents have experienced parking problems because of the number of offices.

Nobody from Capital Provincial was available for comment as the Warrington Guardian went to press.