A new electric car charging station could replace a scrap yard in the Cotswolds.

Plans being considered by councillors tomorrow show how the  Lower Slaughter scrap yard could be turned into 102-charging points and a bus stop.

The proposal, planned for Fosseway, Lower Slaughter, is the first of its kind in Gloucestershire, where other sites have just several car charging points such as Gloucester Services.

The applicant, called Mr Peter Gilder, said it could be the “first of its kind anywhere in the county”.

The Yard is currently used as a scrap metal recycling facility and heavy haulage depot.

Council officers have recommended Cotswold District Council’s planning committee refuse the application on Wednesday, on the grounds it’s an “over-development”.

In total, 65 objections have been raised against the charging station.

Mr Gilder said in a planning statement: “The ambition and drive behind the proposal is to be a forward-thinking scheme that identifies a gap in an emerging market, in a similar way to how NCP purchased derelict sites after World War 2 in town and city centres and turned them into car parks spotting a gap in the future car market back .

“As the latest revolution in personal transportation gathers pace, our proposal seeks to diversify the usage of this site by pre-empting the demand for new infrastructure to support the inevitable growth in pure electric plug-in vehicles.”

The document continued: “We believe that this application has massive potential to offer something new and innovative to the area that could be the first of its kind anywhere in the country.”

Cotswold residents are against the proposal because it’s “the equivalent of a motorway service station in the countryside” and an “inappropriate location for this scale of development”.

According to a council document, a council officer said: “The proposed development will result in an over-provision of infrastructure at an unsustainable location that has not been sufficiently demonstrated as a suitable location for the delivery of policies of the NPPF or emerging policy on electric vehicle charging and would generate an unsustainable level of vehicular movement.”

The authority’s planning committee will determine the application on November 13 from 9:30am.