Plans to run an airport valet parking service from a vacant plot on Park Road in Timperley have drawn objections from local residents.
Landmark Property Group is seeking temporary permission to use land at 43A Park Road – the former home of the Timperley Taverners social club – as an airport valet car park for up to 100 vehicles, together with an on-site office.
The application, validated last week, seeks permission for the use to run until 26 June 2028.
The proposal is not a new idea for the site. An earlier temporary permission for the same valet use expired on 17 September 2025, and a transport report submitted in support of the scheme confirms the operator is seeking a fresh consent with its own expiry date. The site's former club building has since been demolished.
The plot also carries an existing 2022 permission for seven townhouses, which the applicant says will be built out before that consent lapses, with the valet parking presented as a temporary use in the interim.
The Park Road plot carries a long local history. Owned by Altrincham and Sale Liberals since the late 1960s and run as a members' social club from 1985, it served for decades as a base for local Liberal and Liberal Democrat activists before Landmark Property Group bought it in 2020.
The developer's plans for the site have proved contentious before: the housing scheme, originally for eight homes and later cut to seven, attracted more than 25 objections over its size and the pressure on local roads and schools before councillors approved it in October 2022. That consented development comprises three pairs of semi-detached houses and one detached home.
Under the latest proposals, customers would drop their cars at the site before being driven to and from Manchester Airport by minibus. Vehicles would then be parked bumper-to-bumper by staff to maximise capacity, with a disabled bay and cycle parking also provided.
Access would use the existing ramped entrance on Park Road, which the applicant says is unchanged from previous use. Pre-application advice from the council, dated January 2026, recorded that the principle of the development had been agreed with planning officers.
Cllr Kaushik Chakraborty, who represents Broadheath Ward, has written to the council asking for more information and warning that the road cannot absorb the extra traffic.
"Park Rd is not geared up for an additional 100 cars in a residential area," he said, adding that the scheme would increase congestion and pollution and that residents should be consulted before it proceeds.
Among over 20 representations against the plans, a neighbour on Hampton Grove objected on several grounds, arguing that Park Road is already very busy with difficult emergency access, and raising fire-safety fears about large numbers of vehicles parked tightly together close to homes and flats.
The objector also criticised an earlier valet operation at the site as disorganised, and questioned whether there is any real demand for airport parking in a location some distance from the airport itself.
A resident of the adjacent Park Road property lodged a further objection, describing the proposal as inappropriate for a residential street and raising concerns about noise, light pollution, anti-social behaviour and the impact on the area's character and property values.
The single representation in support came from a resident of Kensington Grove whose property directly overlooks the site. They wrote that they had no objection and would far prefer the parking use to seeing seven large homes built on the plot, adding that the land had been used for the same purpose before and that the business owner had been responsible and respectful towards neighbours over noise and disturbance.
The applicant's transport consultant, Ashley Helme Associates, argues the scheme's traffic impact would be negligible. Its assessment compares the valet use against the traffic the consented seven-home scheme would generate, and concludes the parking service would add only a handful of vehicle movements at peak times.
The public consultation runs until 16 July 2026, which is also the council's target date for determining the application.
Comments can be submitted via Trafford Council's planning portal, quoting reference 119018/FUL/26.
