A multi-storey car park could be on its way to Marlow to ease the town’s traffic woes after a taskforce was set up to look at the plan.

With clogged streets and gridlock on the industrial estate, a study will be commissioned after a meeting of the new Park Business Improvement District (BID) floated the idea.

And new business park manager Ronnie Fleming, tasked with overseeing major changes in Marlow’s industrial heartland, says using land on the site for the new project could be the only way.

He said: "If we can get a multi-storey and move the cars off the road then the business traffic in the day would make traffic flow a lot more freely.

"A lot of the things we’re looking at in terms of enhancing the physical appearance of the site is really difficult to achieve until we’ve got the car parking sorted.

"As a business proposition it’s got to be a winner, you just have to look at the cars that are not parked officially at the moment.

"From that point of view, it’s got to stack up financially."

Thousands of cars pour into the Fieldhouse Lane area each day heading to major employers like Softcat, hotel Crowne Plaza and the popular Marlow Club and Coopers coffee bar.

Parking spaces are at a premium in the congested spot, with little parking regulation on roads in the area.

It is hoped that a multi-storey car park may also absorb tourist traffic from the town centre and any surge in rail use when Crossrail arrives at Maidenhead in 2018.

Meetings with Wycombe District Council have resulted in plans to recruit social enterprise group Urban Futures to undertake a feasibility study for solutions to the growing traffic problem.

WDC spokesman Catherine Spalton said: "We are currently discussing the scope of a survey to find the best potential parking solutions for the business park. No work has started on site as yet."

Mr Fleming believes solving the problem of cars lining the roads is "not feasible" unless regulation including double yellow lines is introduced.

The weight of traffic also causes problems at rush hour, with queues to leave business park and residents near the station complaining of commuters using residential roads as a rat run.

And with occupancy on the site currently at around 60 per cent, Mr Fleming said a solution to the traffic problem will become more pressing when new businesses move to the area.

He said: "I’m going to be talking to planners about another access and egress point because we’re so tight at the moment.

"There’s some issues with access that we’re going to have to address, unless we’re going to continue have people coming in through the residential areas, which we don’t want.

"It would annoy me if I was living there, and we want to be good neighbours to people so we’ve got to crack that and although it’s difficult we’ve got to talk it through."