A plan to build more apartments in the city centre has been put forward.
The proposal would see three new one-bed apartments built behind the recently converted Phoenix House off Broad Street in Worcester.
The main building fronting Broad Street, which was built in the 1960s, was converted into 17 apartments across flour floors and a new office as part of work by Deansway Regeneration in the city centre off the busy Deansway.
The application said the new building would sit next to the four-storey modern-looking extension built last year with a design that fits in with surrounding buildings rather than the modern extension.
A row of buildings in Broad Street have been taken over by developers in the last two years with the aim of converting the empty and disintegrating upper floors into new apartments.
Plans to build five apartments in the upper floors of the neighbouring building formerly occupied by Indian restaurant Karma were approved by Worcester City Council in April last year.
A plan by property developers the WXSPI Group to convert a three-storey grade II-listed building in Broad Street, which was previously occupied by clothes repairer and dry cleaners Nice Stitchers, was put forward to the council in 2021 but later withdrawn before a decision was made.
A statement included with the application said: “Each storey has a one-bedroom apartment with bathroom, open space kitchen and living area with views across Worcester city centre and riverside.
“The existing building in Broad Street has a modern aesthetic comprising fibre cement vertical cladding and floor to ceiling height dark powder-coated windows.
“However, due to the location of the new building, the appearance will be more in keeping with the surrounded listed buildings.
“The aim of the new building is to preserve a similar appearance of the neighbouring properties with matching exiting materials, yet to incorporate fibre cement cladding to relate with the building in Broad Street.”
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