A DORCHESTER office block could be demolished to make way for housing.

The site, on the corner of Cornwall Road and Albert Road, opposite the Borough Gardens, is currently used by a range of businesses including accountants and a care provider.

Plans have been submitted to replace the building, which has 27 car parking spaces, with four 4-bed townhouses and nine parking spaces on the 1,270 square metre site.

A planning agent for the developer says that the townhouses will sit roughly on the same footprint as the existing office block with trees on the site being preserved with additional planting and the two access routes remaining in use.

DMW Architects, who has developed the design, says elements on the new homes will mirror some of the features of nearby Edwardian houses with a similar height and brickwork detail.

Dorchester Town Council's January planning committee welcomed the application for the site.

Several other applications to convert business uses into homes have been approved in Dorchester in the past 12 months, including the nearby office block at Vespasian House in Bridport Road and several former offices in High West and High East Street.

Public comments on the proposals remain open until February 2nd – Dorset Council planning reference 2023/07429.