A hotel above a restaurant in Oldham town centre could be transformed into a house in multiple occupation (HMO), fresh plans reveal.

The Royal Hotel on Horsedge Street, which has also been the home of Royal Piri Piri and the Royal Dera restaurant, sits just off Yorkshire Street in the centre of the town.

While the documents suggest the hotel is still in use, earlier last month JAAN Architects LTD submitted a proposal on behalf of Ashfaq Ahmed which outlines changing the building's registered use from a hotel to a HMO.

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Blueprints of the plans show the ground floor would remain as a 'class E' unit - a restaurant, shop or other type of commercial building - and the six bedrooms on the first floor of the hotel would be rented out individually.

Occupants would also have access to the existing shared kitchen space.

The architects say no building work is required to transform the site into a HMO, meaning it would retain its red brick walls, grey tile roof, white UPVC windows and grey aluminium doors.

The plans also do not outline including any car parking spaces or cycle storage as the hotel currently doesn't provide this.

The documents also reveal the applicant managed the ground floor commercial unit.

There are no public objections posted to the plans at the time of writing.

Oldham Council is yet to give its verdict on the proposal.

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