CAR deliveries and servicing could take place earlier in the morning if the developers of a forthcoming £9m car dealership and workshop get their way.

They have applied to Bolton Council to relax restrictions on the times for opening, vehicle fixing and car drop-off and pick-up at the new Audi showroom being built on the former campus of Bolton Sixth Form College on the corner of Manchester Road and Grosvenor Street in Bolton. The applicants, luxury car retailer Inchcape Estates and the public-private land development venture PSP Bolton LLP, seek to vary conditions attached to planning approval for the project granted in October last year.

They said: “Works to vehicles will need to be carried out within hours that do not breach the applicant’s contractual commitments with Audi.

“Inchcape’s servicing contract with Audi is for a 7.30am weekday start. The Audi vehicular and parts delivery process requires that deliveries are received and dispatched before general trading hours.”

Inchcape Estates and PSP Bolton LLP want the restrictions on works to vehicle to change to between 7.30am and 7pm on weekdays and between 8am and 5pm on Saturdays and 11am and 5pm on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

They want the curbs on the hours of delivery or dispatching of vehicles to be altered to between 6.30am and 7pm on weekdays and Saturdays and between 11am and 5pm on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

The opening hours the applicants seek are 7.30am to 7pm on weekdays, from 8am to 6pm on Saturdays and between 11am and 5pm on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

Inchcape said in its original application for the showroom: “Audi’s increasing success in Bolton and the surrounding area is resulting in the need to provide a larger brand new facility to cope with demand and increase operational facilities also.”