WIRRAL’S planners are being asked to allow one of the council’s industrial estates to become home to another sports centre.

The Bromborough International Business Park is already the site of a massive indoor cricket centre and another warehouse has been given permission to be converted for indoor football.

Now the council is being asked to approve plans to create a taekwondo martial art centre.

However, planning officers have recommended the scheme be turned down and local councillor Steve Niblock is hoping the committee will overturn this advice.

The application is to change the site from business and industry to leisure so it can become “as a taekwondo centre and retaining existing office accommodation and a small storage area for equipment”.

A similar application was refused last year, but a report to the planning committee said: “Councillor Niblock removed the application from delegation on the grounds the proposal would provide a unique training/education facility on the Wirral and would provide employment and employment prospects, the building has remained empty for some time and is of no employment use.”

Planners have previously allowed applications for the Sports Excel Academy indoor football centre, which was quickly followed by Eight4Sport’s indoor cricket centre, again using one of the large warehouses on the industrial estate.