Royal Mail has submitted plans for the demolition of a building at the Buxton Delivery Office site over serious health and safety concerns.
The Royal Mail Group has put forward an application for outline ‘planning permission with some matters reserved for the demolition of building (due to serious Health and Safety Concerns and use the footprint of the building as additional parking on the wider site - approval of Appearance, Landscaping, Layout and Scale’.
The demolition relates to the Stores building on the Palace Road site.
Applicant Sam Moseley from Royal Mail said: “The building to be demolished sits above numerous BT-owned storage rooms which will be retained during the demolition works.
“The adjacent buildings will remain open and working throughout the demolition and relevant works.
“The form of the existing building is rectangular on plan with a flat roof.
“The internal space is predominantly open plan with a dividing wall splitting the building into a larger area towards the south-west of the structure (approximately covering two thirds building footprint) and a smaller area to the north-east of the building (covering the remaining third).”
Propping has also been installed within the BT storerooms below due to the deteriorated condition of the suspended slab, prior to the demolition works.
A small shelter of masonry construction with a reinforced concrete flat roof is adjacent to the Stores building, thought to be situated above a buried fuel tank.
Sam said: “Further investigation into the location of the fuel tank will need to be undertaken prior to demolition.
“The buried fuel tank is to be located and removed as part of the demolition works.
“Due to the change in use for the existing slab from use for internal conditions to external, protective screeds are to overlay the existing slab.”
The proposed scope of works comprises the demolition of the existing Stores building and any associated structure down to the slab level, not including the slab itself and the BT storerooms to the underside of the ST building.
Sam added: “All retained areas are to be made good to facilitate the proposed reuse of the space as additional carparking.”