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Plan for four city centre apartments approved

Chris BindingLocal Democracy Reporting Service
News imageGoogle Building at St Thomas Street, Sunderland, proposed for apartments. It is a large three storey red brick building on the end of a terrace.Google
Four apartments are set to be created on the upper floors of a building on St Thomas Street in Sunderland

Plans for new apartments in Sunderland city centre have been given the go-ahead.

Sunderland City Council approved an application to create four apartments on the upper two floors of a mixed-use building on St Thomas Street in the Sunniside conservation area.

The council's conservation team found no objection to the residential conversion as external changes would be "well concealed" and "would have no impact on the character or appearance of the conservation area".

The plan also included new bike lockers and boxes for bats and birds.

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