A Dundee social club is to be demolished and turned into flats after it brought noise complaints from nearby residents.
Planning officers have waved through plans to tear down the 67 Club on Raglan Street in Stobswell with 12 new flats to be built in its place.
The club, which also contains a multi-roomed function suite named Baxter’s, had brought numerous complaints to the Environmental Health Department from local residents in recent years.
Due to the building’s poor-quality construction and layout, developers JF Kegs Scotland have decided to start from scratch rather than try to redesign the facility.
The plan will include 18 residents-only parking spaces as the area faces significant on-street parking pressures.
In a planning statement, the company said: “The nature of the surrounding area has evolved in recent years with the revitalization of many of the historic commercial and industrial sites within the immediate area.
“The resultant redundant and vacant land and buildings have been redeveloped for residential use.
“As a result, this large function suite and social club has caused conflict in terms of noise and anti-social behaviour within what is now a predominantly residential area.
“The existing building offers little scope for reuse; as such a new block of twelve flats with associated parking and amenity space is proposed.”
The building was built between 1922 and 1926 and was first used as the Craigie Works Welfare Club.
The building continued as a working men’s club until around 1989 when the building was split in two to form two separate clubhouses.
The current use as a social club and function suite have been ongoing for just over 10 years, however, due to the downturn in the license trade, had experienced a significant decline in footfall.
Meanwhile, an application to build 32 new affordable homes on Pitkerro Road was also waved through by planning officials.
The vacant 1.2 hectare site was previously home to Longhaugh Neighbourhood Centre before it was demolished in 2011.
