A congested High Wycombe road needs a new car park if plans to create a community hub on the site of a youth centre are given the go-ahead, a councillor has urged.

The Bucks Free Press revealed last week that Bucks County Council is looking to transform Youthspace, on Green Street, into a hub for public bodies like the NHS and the police to work from.

Cllr Sarfaraz Khan Raja, who represents Terriers and Amersham Hill, has urged the county council to consider building an extra car park if the hub goes ahead as residents already suffer due to a lack of parking.

He said: “Whatever you decide please could you make sure it involves a car park or something, because the residents around there don’t have any parking.

“It will just show the residents that you are thinking about them. So if you have a hub, have a car park – on top, underneath, anywhere – so the residents can use it.

“They haven’t got much car parking space and every time I go down that area I get it in the neck and I think my fellow councillors get it as well.”

As well as Youthspace, which is already a busy hub and an office space for Barnados and Adult Learning, Green Street is close to the bustling Desborough Road and has barely any on-street parking.

In response to Cllr Raja’s concerns, head of strategic assets and major property projects at BCC, Joe Nethercoat, said he would emphasise how important parking issues are for residents if the plan progresses.

He said: I will contact project manager and raise it as an issue. We will make sure it is really flushed out as an issue and hopefully we can do something to help.

“We just really need to make it stack up financially, to see if we can afford to put the hub and the facilities there.

“It is only an idea that we are thinking about to bring to the community.”