Norton Canes

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Norton Canes
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Road:	M6 Toll between JT6 and JT7 (also accessible via the A5 and B4154)
Address:	Road Chef Norton Canes M S A Bettys Lane Norton Canes Cannock Staffordshire WS11 9UX
Telephone number:	01543 272540
Signposted from the road?	Yes
Opened:	2004
Grid reference:	SK023074
Services type:	Single site located between junctions with access to both sides.
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Located off its own unnumbered junction, Norton Canes is one of the newest motorway services in the UK. It's very popular and very busy, and is well landscaped, with fountains and picnic benches located around it.

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Facilities

General: Picnic Tables, BT Openzone
Restaurants: RestBite, Wimpy, Costa Coffee
Shops: WH Smith, Fonebitz
Fuel: BP (pump types unknown)
Motel: Premier Inn^{[book rooms]}

Parking Prices

First two hours free for all vehicles, after which HGVs must pay £16, or £18 to include a £10 food voucher.

Further information is not available, please update this if you know.

Trivia

One of RoadChef's most profitable sites, Norton Canes is quite possibly the only service area where traffic from the local area and A5 road can come in and park up in a separate car park. Normally such things are possible but illegal.

The food is served in a new 'cook to order' and 'proper' style, taking 10 minutes to cook and pleasing the BBC's 'The Money Programme', but it costed nearly £50 to feed a family of four! It also featured in their 'Top Gear' in 2004.

The site occupies 68 acres, and it opened on the 9th March 2004, a few months after the motorway itself. The parking areas can accommodate 350 cars, 52 lorries, 25 coaches and 6 caravans, in addition to a 110-space overflow car park (which is used much more than you'd think, see the photos).

The services were first proposed in 1993 as part of the toll road project and were initially rejected by the council on environmental grounds.

Survey Results

The services were inspected by the AA on the 24th and 25th of March 2007. These are their results:

The services were said to be spacious with a good variety of food, but the food was not tasty and required plastic cutlery, and for a new build it had no outdoor play area and a poor indoor one.

In 2006, Holiday Which? visited and rated the services at 4/5, they liked the individuality of the products for sale.

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Comments and Reviews

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Author: Message: David F My wife called at the BP service station,this morning and was struggling to fill the windscreen washer bottle on her Ford Focus Hire car. A gentleman called Alan, who works at the BP helped her unlock the bonnet and fill the car up. Being a customer services manager,she was impressed by his help and service and if he reads this she wants to say a big thank you. Posted: 24 Feb 2010, 16:13 Anonymous Who ever found and handed in my hand bag Thank you so much really appreciate your honesty. Mrs Mckeever and a big thank you to the staff who contacted my son August 3rd Posted: 03 Aug 2009, 15:57 Alan Give them a phone directly. The number is 01543 272540 Posted: 15 Jul 2009, 15:57 Anonymous Did anybody find or hand in a pink cat teddy around lunch time today - 13th July 2009? We have a distraught daughter tonight! Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 20:14 Johnny Ask RoadChef. Posted: 14 Jun 2009, 18:15 Anonymous please did anyone find a camera at the far end of the carpark this afternoon? Posted: 14 Jun 2009, 17:43 Tevildo An interesting point - the signs at the exit to the services are the only place where "M6 Toll" is rendered in the Motorway Permanent font, rather than the Transport font used on the rest of the signs on the motorway. Well, I thought it was interesting. Posted: 25 Apr 2009, 22:53 alex I was suprised to see a Subway at the Bp - is this the first on the motorway network. They have refurbished inside - it is now a WHSmith and a new (tiny) Fonebitz store! Posted: 17 Apr 2009, 13:24 Anonymous Its an OK service station but those with dogs should park on the east side in the lorry park (not many lorries because of the toll) and loads of fenced off space for dogs! Coffee bar OK but burgers cold and limp. V busy in summer but they have overflow car park, v quiet in winter as people do not use the toll road Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 20:26 symball it is good- one of the best in the area and a good place to stop to get change for the toll booths- it is expensive but no more than other services in the area Posted: 21 May 2008, 12:16
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With thanks to AA survey footer for 2007.