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Petrol station launches bid for 24-hour opening
Sunderland Echo
|August 18, 2025
A Sunderland petrol station is looking to extend its opening hours after lodging a bid to open 24 hours a day.
Sunderland City Council's planning department recently received an application for the petrol filling station near Morrisons, off Lowry Road, in the Seaburn area.
Motor Fuel Group, which owns and operates the petrol station, applied for a "certificate of lawful proposed use" for the site.
This included the site operator seeking a formal decision from the council's planning department to establish that “there are no planning restrictions which prevent the filling station from operating 24 hours”, council planning documents state.
This story is from the August 18, 2025 edition of Sunderland Echo.
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