A NEW apartment block could be built next to a school in Bromley Cross.

Plans have been submitted to Bolton Council to tear down the offices of J D Electrical Contractors, next to Turton School, and built 12 flats in their place.

The company is due to relocate from Chapeltown Road to a new custom-built premises.

The applicant, The Vault Dawn Pension Fund, says that the existing building would ‘require significant refurbishment and investment’ to make it appealing to any potential new tenants.

They added that the housing plan would ‘maximise the use of the site and would create a financially viable development’.