A FORMER GP surgery is set to be converted into a 10-bedroom house share after plans were approved.

Proposals were put forward to turn the former Risedale GP Practice in Gloucester Street, Barrow, into housing.

The surgery is now closed having moved its services to the Alfred Barrow Health Centre.

A plan to turn the surgery into a multiple-occupant house was given the green light by Barrow Council.

Plans put forward said there would be new windows and doors installed on the former surgery.

The building was sold at auction last year, changing hands after going under the hammer online.

An auction listing said: “Uses are wide and varied subject to the necessary consents, using the current footprint or conversion. May suit the professional sector or the developer to convert to room lets or flats.”

The plans are currently out for public consultation before they are assessed by planning officers and will eventually be decided upon by councillors.

Neighbours on Gloucester Street, Risedale Road and Roose Road were informed of the plan through public notices.

Another former Barrow medical building was also sold this year, with plans already approved to turn it into housing.

Stafford House in Barrow was on the market for offers in the region of £300,000. Based in Abbey Road, the building was sold by estate agents Corrie and Co. The building’s previous owners have already received change of use planning permission to turn into housing from offices.

A listing said: “A rare chance to purchase this former doctors' surgery with detailed planning permission to be converted back into two family homes or nine flats.

Hartington Street Medical Practice is also among former doctors' surgeries that have been converted.

The practice, which closed in 2016, is now an eight-bedroom house.