OWNERS of a former nightclub in a major Oswestry road want to convert more office space into flats, according to plans submitted to Shropshire Council.
The plans for Oscar House at 16 Beatrice Street – formerly Ozzy's Nightclub – are to turn the rest of unused communal space at he building to be turned into four one-bedroom flats.
The proposal is for also turning an established flat on the ground floor of the building into two further one-bedroom flats and has been submitted to the council by Llansilin-based David Ellis-Morgan.
An application form submitted on his behalf by Llanfyllin-based RRA Architecture Ltd explained the proposal.
It said: "A conversion of communal residential floor space into four one-bedroom flats and division of flat number one into two flats and, installation of new windows to the north east elevation to provide natural daylight into ground and first floor and adequate ventilation.
"Connection of four additional toilets to mains sewerage.
"Oscar House is currently a mixed use building.
"It comprises of commercial office space to the street side (Beatrice Street) and residential flats to the rear of the property and the first floor.
"When it was originally designed and built the intent was to have communal residential floor space; however these communal spaces are not being used and are not accessed by the tenants of the flats.
"To make use of this redundant space the proposal is to divide the large ground floor area into three flats and the first floor room into another flat.
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"All would be one-bedroom flats and because of the excellent condition of the building and the convenient locations of services and up-to-date building regulation standards for acoustic separation and fire separation it makes the conversion of the space from communal to flats a low risk and beneficial way to utilise the otherwise redundant space."
Drawings submitted with the application show that flat number eight would be placed into communal space on the first floor facing Plas Madoc while on the ground floor, flats nine, 10 and 11 would fit into the redundant communal space.
Permission for the conversion of office and flat space from Ozzy's nightclub was originally given in 2011.
Anyone wishing to comment on the application can do so by visiting https://pa.shropshire.gov.uk/online-applications and search 22/04740/FUL.
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