House plan for former chapel in Leominster, Herefordshire

Mrs C Williams of Jazz Hair Studio in Burgess Street, Leominster has applied for permission (number 242300) to convert the grade II listed 19th-century building within the town’s conservation area, which has been vacant for around three years.

The long period of disuse “has not come about through lack of trying” to sell it, a statement with her planning application says.

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With a first floor and stair access already installed, the conversion would “retain the existing primary structure” of the building, though two blocked-up first-floor windows on the south side would be reinstated and replicated on the ground floor.

New interior dividing walls would create two bedrooms, each en-suite, on the ground floor, with an open-plan kitchen, dining and living room on the first floor, accompanying plans show.

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Further changes to the rear of the building would allow a small outdoor terrace to be created off the living area on the first floor.

Jazz Hair Studio previously relocated to a different premises on the same street – which is also home to former Wesleyan Methodist and Congregational chapels.

A decision on the proposal is expected shortly.