A family-run car wash that has split the community is set to close after retrospective planning permission was turned down. Planners said the business was in the wrong area and created too much noise and disruption for neighbours.

Several letters of support had been sent to Coventry City Council appealing for the car wash in the car park of the Walsgrave Club to be granted permission. They said that it was a well-run business that had become part of the community. But other neighbours objected stating the noise from the venture had made their lives a misery.

John O’Brien, secretary of the club which is on the junction of Woodway Lane and Narberth Way, explained that long-running issues with anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping on the car park and problems with travellers had stopp

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