Transcona Coun. Russ Wyatt is accusing the City of Winnipeg of breaching its urban planning guidelines by supporting a proposed Tangerine "pop-up" bank branch on a parking lot in his ward.

Wyatt said he's angry that city planners want to allow Tangerine Bank to put a shipping container on the parking lot of Kildonan Place Shopping Centre and modify it to operate as a business outlet.

The city's board of adjustment approved Tangerine's proposal at a meeting on Wednesday evening. The approval spans 1.5 years and can be renewed.

The city's urban planning division recommended the proposal to place a "temporary structure on a secondary 'pad site' for an office use" be approved.

However, Wyatt said the city has no policy allowing such a project to be approved, and residents in his ward were never consulted.

"There was no guideline for this anywhere in the city and we're flying by the seat of our pants here by approving this," he said.

While the plan has been approved, there is an appeal process, and Wyatt said he plans to appeal the board's decision in September.

The shipping container would be placed across five parking stalls close to the sidewalk along Regent Avenue.

Wyatt said the plans mean portable toilets will have to be set up. He's also concerned that other businesses may follow suit and try to run their operations out of shipping containers.

He believes no other commercial operation would be allowed to do this in Winnipeg.

"Experiment in Tuxedo. Experiment across from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, or maybe Hartley Richardson can ... put it right in front of the Richardson building by those statues there. Experiment there," he said.

Tangerine plans to set up similar pop-up locations across Canada.