A former car park on a busy High Wycombe street that has been left “vacant and deteriorating” for more than 25 years looks set to become a block of flats.

Developers submitted plans to create a “Georgian-style" stucco three-storey block of two-bedroom apartments on the BT car park in Easton Street - “closing the gap” between the existing buildings.

A number of similar plans have submitted for the site by the same developer.

The car park, which laid unused and overgrown for many years, was initially made into a part-time car park on the one-way street following the demolition of a college building in 1989.

As well as nine new flats, there will be ten parking spaces, four balconies, a communal bin store and a secure cycle store, communal garden as well as a roof terrace for one of the flats.

In a public planning statement, Planning Matters LLP say the new block of apartments will support the “vitality” of the town centre and “enhance the special character of the Conservation Area as well as enhancing the townscape, urban form and character of Easton Street and the locality.”

The developers also say that the space would not be suitable for offices or shops because creating big shop fronts would be “at odds with the surrounding buildings”, while the town already has an “oversupply” of office space.