A GYM has submitted plans to relocate to a former milk factory.

Evolution Gym has sent in plans to the council to convert the building on Duncan Street, near the town centre.

Plans say the gym has had to move from its current base near North Road due to no longer having access to a communal car park and that it risked losing members if it does not relocate.

A design and access statement in the plans says: "The building was originally to operate as a dairy factory, and it thought to have changed its use throughout the years, its most recent use was a car garage - The Renault Man".

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The statement adds: "The existing layout of the warehouse is ideally suited to be converted into a gymnasium. It comprises a large central open space for equipment to be used as the main floor, and partition walls in opposite corners of the building forming suitably sized rooms for changing areas and lockers.

"There will be no changes to the internal layout formation".

The site will have 32 parking spaces, plans add.

There would be "no change" to the appearance of the building, other than an advertising sign, which will be subject to a separate application.

Police found a cannabis farm of more than 1,600 plants at the former milk factory building in October 2020.

Plans are on consultation to the public until Wednesday, March 17.

A determination deadline on plans has been set for Tuesday, April 13.