PLANS have been lodged to convert a former workshop which is in a ‘poor state’ into a house in Ulverston.

Mr W Ramsay has submitted plans to Westmorland and Furness Council to convert a former workshop on The Gill into a two-bedroom residential dwelling.

The applicant proposes removing and replacing the roof, the perished parts of front and rear walls, and then rebuilding in keeping with the rest of the row.

Planning documents state: “The building at 22 The Gill has not been redeveloped and gives the external appearance of a small workshop/warehouse that has now fallen into a poor state of repair.

“The rear roof is of corrugated cement panels. Internally, the ground floor is a single room with cracked cement flooring shaped to a drain channel that runs to a drain near the rear doorway. A staircase, in poor repair, leads up in the west front corner to the single room of the upper floor. The two end walls show evidence of damp ingress on both levels.

“Within the conservation area, the building is not individually significant other than preserving the integrity of the block of traditional buildings along the western end of The Gill.”

This planning application is under consultation.