PLANS to convert the derelict Dorbren House into bedsits have been submitted to Barnsley Council.

The application outlines the plans to create a bedsits, from the unused doctor's surgery, which shut in 2012 when it relocated to the new health centre in Grimethorpe.

It has been submitted by Phoenix Investment Property Ltd, via an agent, White Agus Partnership based on Whaley Road, Barnsley.

Tenants would have their own bedroom, with shared kitchen and bathroom facilities.

** The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle newspaper, dated January 9. **