PLANS to convert a workshop and offices into homes and to demolish a cottage and create a new property have been submitted.

Proposals for the site at Windle Park Office on Abbey Road, Dentons Green, have been sent to the council by applicant Chris Brady.

A planning statement, drawn up by agents, CW Planning Solutions, says: “The application site is a former stable style building associated historically with Windle Hall, which is located immediately to the south of the application site.

“The buildings are located off Abbey Road via an established access which currently serves the office use which has ancillary workshops, for repairing copiers, storage and associated residential accommodation, in part of the buildings”.

The statement says the site is “well secluded by surrounding trees and buildings and is essentially self-contained and not visible in the wider countryside”.

The site is located in the green belt as defined by the St Helens Local Plan and there is a farm immediately to the north.

The application state the proposals are in three parts, the conversion of the existing office, workshop and store building into five residential units; the demolition of a former cottage and its replacement with a new property; and the rearrangement of the access, parking and amenity areas.

The statement adds “some forms of built development and change of uses are appropriate in the green belt. Essentially in this situation, the proposal consists of the re-use of a permanent and substantial structure”

It says: “Given that in any objective analysis the site is fully enclosed and cannot be seen into or through then there is clearly no harm to the openness of the green belt or the wider purposes for having the green belt, as the built development already covers the whole application site in its current format”.

Plans are on standard consultation until Thursday, September 8, with a determination deadline set for October 11.