Liverpool Council is assessing a development application for a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week Shell petrol station on Heathcote Road, Moorebank.

Local man Lee Albert said he felt the proposal had ``slipped under the radar'' and another service station was not needed in the area, because there were already several in close proximity.

He said Meehan Park, across the road from the proposed site, was a thoroughfare and already a point of congregation for drunken youths.

``The park is subject to constant vandalism and there is always broken glass from smashed beer bottles there, which in addition to causing a disturbance for families late at night is a real danger to children who play in the park.''

He said the council should consider whether the enticement of a 24-hour facility was a ``valid proposition for a site in the immediate vicinity of an already out-of-control problem''.

But others have said the service station would be conveniently sited just before the M5 on-ramp, making it easier to fill up on the way to work.

Menai MP Alison Megarrity said she had made several representations to Liverpool Council about the matter on behalf of concerned residents.

A Liverpool Council spokeswoman said the application for the service station, was in the early stages of assessment.

``The council has already received 17 submissions about the service station and one petition,'' she said. Noise and safety considerations would be taken into account as part of the assessment, she said.