Stonebridge services
A45 Stonebridge Highway
Signposted from the road? Westbound only
CV3 6RQ
map and directions
Single site located between junctions on one side of the road..
This service area is only signposted westbound, but it is accessible eastbound via the roundabout.
Facilities
Forecourt: BP, M&S Simply Food, Wild Bean Café, AdBlue Containers, Car Wash, Free Cash Machine
Parking Prices
Short stay customer parking is available for cars. No HGV parking is available.
Parking and use of the forecourt is limited to 30 minutes maximum stay and is strictly enforced by BP.
This information is provided to us by third parties. You should always check with staff on site.
Contact Details
🏢 Address:
B P Connect
Stonebridge Highway
Coventry
Warwickshire
CV3 6RQ
Trivia and History
A petrol station and garage first opened here in the late 1950s, known as Midway Garage (though some records call it 'Highway Garage') and managed by S H Newsome & Co. Ltd. Initially it had a temporary layout that may have been awaiting work on the Stonebridge Highway.
It had a refuelling area positioned close to the road, and a large, empty space at the back as this was where the borough boundary was. A lot of space was lost when the roundabout was upgraded in the 1970s.
By 1987 the site was under direct BP control. BP wanted to build a new filling station, a drive thru restaurant and a residential block here. This proposal was refused as it was considered to be too intensive a use of such a small space.
Instead BP were granted permission to build new petrol station, car wash, restaurant, 40-bed hotel and business facility in 1990. The restaurant and hotel didn't materialise, but a new, much larger, petrol station and car were built in the 1990s, expanding into some of the land that was previously in the rural district council area.
Another attempt to add a restaurant to the site was submitted in 2000, but that plan was later withdrawn.
The sales shop used to be a Safeway. This changed to a M&S Simply Food store with a Wild Bean Café offering in 2007.
Despite this being a small site, it has full signage marking it as an official service area. These signs were placed by the Highways Agency, who maintained the road until 2003. The road is now the responsibility of Coventry City Council, who may not be aware that the signs (which have been outdated since 2015) are even there.
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