PLANS to build a new block of flats on an old salvage yard have been approved.

Dursemoor Properties applied for planning permission to build a block of nine flats at the former home of Colchester Reclaim, in Hawkins Road, Hythe.

Flats will be created in two blocks, each of five or six-storeys in height.

They will be a mix of three and two-bed apartments.

A car park will be created beneath the properties.

Planning permission for a similar scheme of eight flats we approved last year.

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A planning report, prepared by McLean Architectural, said: "The scheme proposes that the whole of the site will be in residential use, with all nine apartments enclosing a shared courtyard and provided with private amenity space, making good use of the land available for development.

"The proposed scheme is available now, a suitable location and an achievable site for residential development, therefore it is deliverable and the applicant is pleased to confirm that construction can begin in the short term, as soon as the new planning permission is granted."

Colchester Council has now approved the latest plans for the nine flats.

Colchester Reclaim moved to Tiptree after the original planning application was approved in March 2020.