Three basement flats are privately owned and occupied and not in poor condition.
A supporting statement included within the planning application addresses the parking situation.
It suggested that people were parking on Church Street and nearby Castle Street to take the bus or train elsewhere, as well as to get to the town’s High Street.
However, the report added that there was other parking available nearby.
It calls on members of the planning committee to visit the site and to consider at the history of the building.
The report concludes: “It would be a sin if we were to allow this historical building to decline further.