After nearly three years, the Isle of Wight Council has approved plans to turn the ex-City Plumbing Store, on Ryde High Street, into five apartments – two one-bed and three two-bed dwellings.
They will be built in the existing building and the shop fronts will replaced.
A condition of the planning permission means work must start within the next three years.
Isle of Wight Council officers said the proposals will improve the overall appearance of the building, which is ‘currently tired’ and ‘in need of refurbishment’.
Southampton-based company Questmap, which owns the building, is behind the development plans.
It had struggled to find a commercial tenant to lease the shop front, since the plumbing supply store relocated.
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