PLANS have been sent to North Ayrshire Council which would see a specialist care institution created in a former hotel.

Planning permission is required for the building, despite all works being internal, as the old Moorpark House Hotel is a listed building and consent would be required.

An application had previously been approved in 2016, for work similar to that which is being proposed now, and the application says changes to this are “relatively minor”, so they would appreciate the application being processed as quickly as possible.

Some of the work that would take place includes the reduction of the number of bedrooms in the facility from 17 to 15 and the creation of a small number of consulting rooms.

There is very little work to be carried out in the main part of the listed building and it comprises mostly of a front ground floor bedroom being reused as lounge/reception type of room, which was its original purpose.

There was no physical work involved to enable use as a bedroom, and only sympathetic redecoration will be needed to return it to such use.

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A large proportion of the work which would have to be carried out would be on the ex-hotel function room, which was a previous extension.

The bedroom which currently exists there would be converted for consulting use, with five new consulting/treatment rooms created in its place.

The secondary kitchen which exists in the property would also be stripped out, to be replaced by “a more efficient laundry” space and housekeeper's office.

The immediate garden grounds and car parking facilities would remain as they are.

The full application can be viewed on NAC’s online planning portal, using the reference 22/00524/PP.