Plans for a new police station in the Northern Midlands have reached the next step. A development application for the $5 million station has been submitted to the council for the site in Longford. Proposed for Peel Street, the new police station's infrastructure requirements and the need for future-proofing meant a location three kilometres from the town was the best fit due to Longford's predicted growth. The development application proposed to build a 830-square-metre station including office and meeting spaces as well as amenities and operation areas. There will be space in a secure garage for seven police vehicles and a 945-sqm storage building. An additional 45-space car park for staff and visitors is also proposed. IN OTHER NEWS: The existing macrocarpa trees along Cressy Road will be removed and a six-metre-wide access constructed. Timber milled from the trees is expected to be used within the building. "Macrocarpa trees that have resided on the site for most of the last century will ground the building and help it ease into its surroundings," the application reads. The proposed station roof is designed to represent the folding valleys and ridges of the Western Tiers that can be seen from the site. "The buildings are of simple single-storey design with hipped roof forms and have been designed to be complementary to the rural landscape," the application reads. RELATED STORIES: A police entrance will be concealed behind a vehicle gate. The site also leaves room for Ambulance Tasmania and Tasmania Fire Service to possibly set up in the future, creating an emergency services hub. Identified demand is the reasoning for the new station. Its benefits include the ease of access, its lack of exposure to natural hazards and lack of environmental impact. A traffic impact assessment found 3200 vehicles per day travel along Cressy Road with a speed limit of 80km/h near the subject site. The estimated daily generation of traffic is expected to be about 200 vehicles per day. The report found the traffic generation represented "little change". The application is open for comment until March 10. HAVE YOUR SAY:
Plans for a new police station in the Northern Midlands have reached the next step.
A development application for the $5 million station has been submitted to the council for the site in Longford.
Proposed for Peel Street, the new police station's infrastructure requirements and the need for future-proofing meant a location three kilometres from the town was the best fit due to Longford's predicted growth.
The development application proposed to build a 830-square-metre station including office and meeting spaces as well as amenities and operation areas.
There will be space in a secure garage for seven police vehicles and a 945-sqm storage building. An additional 45-space car park for staff and visitors is also proposed.
The existing macrocarpa trees along Cressy Road will be removed and a six-metre-wide access constructed. Timber milled from the trees is expected to be used within the building.
"Macrocarpa trees that have resided on the site for most of the last century will ground the building and help it ease into its surroundings," the application reads.
The proposed station roof is designed to represent the folding valleys and ridges of the Western Tiers that can be seen from the site.
"The buildings are of simple single-storey design with hipped roof forms and have been designed to be complementary to the rural landscape," the application reads.
A police entrance will be concealed behind a vehicle gate.
The site also leaves room for Ambulance Tasmania and Tasmania Fire Service to possibly set up in the future, creating an emergency services hub.
Identified demand is the reasoning for the new station. Its benefits include the ease of access, its lack of exposure to natural hazards and lack of environmental impact.
A traffic impact assessment found 3200 vehicles per day travel along Cressy Road with a speed limit of 80km/h near the subject site. The estimated daily generation of traffic is expected to be about 200 vehicles per day. The report found the traffic generation represented "little change".
The application is open for comment until March 10.
