City restaurant bid

Diagrams submitted to the local authority’s planning officers by LJR+H Architects show plans to convert the building in Commercial Street.

The new eatery would be called the Shaheen Bangladeshi Restaurant and Takeaway and elevation diagrams show that the building would retain much of the appearance of the former registrars office.

Under the proposals, the office’s existing typing area, to the right of the main entrance, would become a takeaway, bar area and an office, with seating for up to 11 customers.

The former reception area would become a 74-seat restaurant, with eight four-seat tables, and seven six-seat booths.

Meanwhile, the two former wedding registered effort to bring the building back into use since it closed two years ago. He said: “We’re still working on the supporting statement but there will be a lot of public interest.

“The building has a really high quality facade. The window frames and ironmongery are all solid brass and the facade is polished granite.

“The council must have spent a lot of money on it originally and the intention is to repair and retain that.

“The lettering we’ll be using will be adhesive, so we don’t have to drill into the walls or anything.”

The registrars office served Dundee for decades before the doors closed in June 2015. It hosted Scotland’s first same-sex marriage in December 2014, when Whitfield couple Leanne and Marie Banks converted their civil partnership into a legal marriage.

All registrations of births, deaths and marriages were moved to the council’s City Square HQ after the Commercial Street operation closed.

DUNDEE’s former registrars office could soon be transformed into a restaurant and takeaway if new plans are approved by the council.

The former registrars office, which closed its doors in June 2015, could be transformed into a Bangladeshi restaurant and takeaway.

An artist’s impression of what the Shaheen Restaurant would look like.