A DENTAL clinic has applied for permission to convert a garage outbuilding to a Dental Lab and Wellness Room, as well as the designation of two rooms as dental surgeries.

A planning application has been submitted to Northumberland County Council on behalf of Honour Health.

The clinic is on Bell Villas, in Ponteland.

Honour Health has been trading from the premises since 2015.

In a design, access and heritage statement submitted alongside the application, the practice would like to be able to offer additional services from the site by converting the existing garage outbuilding.

The statement also said: "In addition, as the practice offers specialist dentistry it has become necessary to expand the surgery capacity in the main building to allow longer appointments to take place while also serving regular checkup patients".

The exterior of the buildings will remain in the same footprint, with only the doors of the outbuilding being proposed to change.

According to the application, the clinic currently have four full-time members of staff and one part-time staff member.

They propose to have five full-time members of staff and two part-time employees.