Manufacture of prefabricated buildings in rural Herefordshire looks set to expand.

An application (number 242559) by Premier Hygienic Pension Scheme says its plan for a site south of the village of Shobdon west of Leominster is “driven by the need for additional space for an industry which provides quality employment”.

The building would go on what is currently a 1,000-square-metre grassed area. But this “is in the context of an already industrial development” in the form of the neighbouring Old Cinema building and surrounding premises of modular buildings supplier ModularWise.

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The “typical industrial” dark grey steel portal frame building proposed alongside it would have solar panels on its south-facing roof, the planning application says.

Measuring 18.5 metres long and wide, and 8.3 metres tall, it would have three large roller shutter doors toward the road from which deliveries on and off lorries would be made – of which no more than four week are expected.

The new premises would create up to five full-time jobs, the application adds.

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ModularWise’ prefab buildings can be used as classroom and office extensions, toilets and facilities for travellers’ sites.

It is thought the Old Cinema previously provided entertainment for air force personnel stationed at the former RAF Shobdon airfield.

Comments on the current application can be made until December 12.