Hairdressers are determined to fight proposals to turn their salon into a two-bedroom house.

Estate agents Roland James, which has owned the Baileys Hair Gallery building in Baileys Gant since 1976, has applied to Braintree Council to convert the business into a residential property.

Plans include changing the ground floor into a living room-cum-diner with a separate kitchen and converting the second floor and treatment room into two bedrooms and a bathroom.

The hairdressers, which has been operating from the building for more than 16 years, employs seven people.

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