Plans for $6 million North Tamworth Ambulance station revealed

The site of the "state of the art" new facility was announced in just July.

The North Tamworth station has already hit the planning system, with a DA and early plans submitted to Tamworth Regional Council this week.

For the first time the project has a price tag, with planning documents showing it is estimated to cost $6,311,352.

Tamworth MP Kevin Anderson said the project was on schedule for construction to start later this year.

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"We said we were going to move on it, to have those plans lodged with council is exciting," he said.

"Our paramedics have been working out of a very old building for a long time. Now that the money's been made available, we've got site and they're starting to work on those concept drawings and plans ... there's no reason not to get moving on it."

Planning documents shared with Tamworth Regional Council show the building will include eight ambulance parking bays, parking for a rescue truck and two administrative vehicles and a washing bay.

Inside the 1,400 square metre building will be equally high-tech.

There will be a staff common room, and kitchen and dining areas, male and female amenities, two meeting rooms, five individual offices and two shared offices, as well as a small gym.

It will replace the 94-year-old Marius Street station, a building so old it doesn't have male and female change rooms.

The station is expected to be staffed at a rate of 41 full time equivalent staff by the year 2031, planning documents show.

Mr Anderson said the new structure will be built to enable the local service to expand as the city does.

"It makes good sense that when you build any facility ... you build for growth, you build for capacity," he said.

"This city is on a boom, it's on a trajectory to get to 100,000 in the future, so we've got to make sure we've got the facilities to cater for that growth."

If approved, the new station will be built on the old tennis courts at 59-73 Piper Street, in North Tamworth.

The site is surrounded on three sides by homes and on the fourth by the North Tamworth Bowling Club.

A noise assessment conducted for the project shows the worst-affected nearby home would experience a "marginal exceedance" of just one decibel, so little it would not be discernible to the average listener and wouldn't warrant noise controls.

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