Plans go in for Spalding Sorting Office

Plans have gone in to transform an eyesore in the town centre.

As we have previously reported the former Spalding Sorting Office in The Crescent will be transformed into flats.

Mr S Gareb has now lodged plans to change the use of the site to create 10 flats with retail on the ground floor.

The proposal seeks to convert the upper floors into five two bedroom flats and five one bedroom units.

The design and access statement says: “Originally built by the Royal Mail Post Office in 1961, the building provided uses as a sorting office. It was abandoned in the 1990s following the relocation of the sorting office elsewhere in Spalding.

“At present, the site and building are derelict, neglected and deteriorating from the exterior as well as severely decaying internally.

“It is evident that the site and building would benefit from urgent repair and refurbishment to help rejuvenate The Crescent and the streetscape along Spring Gardens.

“The proposal seeks to ‘celebrate’ the building and give back life and soul to its former self.”

Concerns have been raised in the past about the state of the building by firms in the area.