WORK SET FOR BANK IN CONSERVATION AREA

AN OLD bank in a conservation area will be ‘decommissioned’, if planners give the go-ahead.

They have been asked to approve changes to the old Barclays Bank in Haywood Street,

Leek.

The branch shut in September after Barclays revealed the number of counter transactions had plummeted.

Now features will be removed to make the building more like it was before it became a bank.

Plans include:

The removal of external signs;

The removal of the night safe, with the aperture to be filled in with brick; The removal of the ATM, followed by the installation of new timber replicating the panel on the existing door to cover the aperture.

Plans state all existing original features ‘will not be affected’ by the proposals. They add: “The proposed works are intended to return the building to pre-barclays occupation as much as it is possible.” A decision by Staffordshire Moorlands District Council is expected within eight weeks.