Inverness drive-thru coffee shop plan lodged with Highland Council for Morrisons supermarket car park
A new coffee shop and drive-thru could be built in Inverness city centre.
Plans have been submitted to build the drive-thru on under-used car parking within the city’s Morrisons supermarket in Millburn Road.
If give the green light, the applicant - Motor Fuels Group - plans to erect the coffee shop in a north-eastern corner of the car park - the section furthest away from the store’s entrance doorway, and next to the site’s road junction with Millburn Road.
“The scheme seeks to revitalise the existing WM Morrisons car park by offering more choice to customers and generating new employment opportunities through the provision of a new drive-thru coffee shop,” said a supporting statement lodged by Winter Fuel Group’s agents, Whittam Cox Architects.
“Motor Fuel Group hope that the advantages of this proposal as well as the overall benefits to the local community will be supported.”
They acknowledged that the plans “will result in the loss of parking spaces within the store car park” but added that surveys of its use “demonstrate that the remaining car park has sufficient capacity for the current use of the store and the anticipated use of the drive-thru coffee shop”.
Seven new ultra-rapid vehicle charges will also be installed on the site, as well as two cycle stands.
The coffee shop drive-thru, which will have an external area of 217 sq m and 169 sq m of internal floor space, will also have an external seating area, and an adjoining utility yard of 26 sq m.
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