A new application has been submitted for part of the former B&M store in Nantwich to be converted into 20 apartments.

A previous application from Apavi Group Holdings was refused by Cheshire East planners in the summer, but this latest one says issues relating to bin and cycle storage have been revised.

A planning statement submitted by DRK Planning says: "This application is only for self-contained class C3 apartments.

"It is and it cannot be for class C4 HMO use or for occupation by asylum seekers, which would either be a sui generis or Class C1 use.

A Hope House Children's Hospice shop is due to move into the retail part of the store in November (Jonathan White).

"Furthermore, there would be no permitted development rights to then seek to convert the premises to any such non-C3 uses and it is neither the applicant's intention nor part of their business model to provide any such non-C3 uses in future.

"Instead, the proposed new apartments would provide high-quality additional housing choice and housing opportunities for small households and young families in Nantwich seeking to get on the housing ladder in a centralised and highly sustainable location."

The proposal is for nine one-bedroom, one-person flats; seven one-bed, two-person flats, and four two-bed, three-person flats.

It involves the change of use of part of the ground floor and the full first floor of the building and includes three car parking spaces and 20 for cycles.

The planning document says: "Separate to this proposal, the applicant is refurbishing and upgrading the ground floor shop.

"These works are limited to internal alterations to the shop frontage and the front part of the internal trading space only and therefore any current building work on site is only in relation to the existing retail part of the property and does not amount to a material change of use of the building."

A Hope House Children's Hospice shop is due to move into the retail part of the store in November.

The last date for submitting comments on the application is Wednesday 5 November.

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