AN empty office and workshop building could be transformed into apartments if proposals are given the go-ahead.

Plans have been submitted to Warrington Borough Council seeking prior approval for a change of use for the building.

The building in question is named The Mews, at Burley Heyes on Arley Road in Appleton Thorn, with applicant Mr M Einollahi seeking to convert it from offices and a workshop to six dwellings.

Burley Heyes includes a group of buildings with a mix of uses including offices, with a further area of development to the east including a gymnasium and further storage.

The Mews consists of a converted barn set in u-shaped configuration, with the northern and eastern sides of the building the subject of the application.

The building contains 605 square metres of office space, with storage and workshop space occupying parts of the ground floor.

From the late 1990s, the building was occupied by CCTV firm Remguard, which has since relocated to Wigan.

From 2003, AD Aerospace also occupied the building before it went into liquidation in 2016, being reinstated as Netvu, but which relocated to Northwich in 2019.

The property has remained vacant since then, but it was the subject of plans rejected in March last year to transform the site into six dwellings.

This was due to it including land beyond the curtilage of the building, the provision of additional windows and ‘unacceptable levels of noise pollution’.

The applicant says that these issues will be addressed through this new application, with minimal external changes, to create six two-bedroom apartments.

Plans are currently with the council and will be decided upon in due course.