A CITY centre sandwich shop could be turned into a holiday flats.

A planning application has been submitted for Krusties in Patrick Pool, York, to be converted into a "boutique hotel".

The owners of Krusties said last year the business was struggling to survive as customers moved to working from home. It has since closed down.

VR Property Developers have now submitted an application to create three 'suites' with guests collecting keys from a coded safe.

The developers say: "The property is currently vacant and in a poor state of disrepair.

"No changes are to be made to the structure of the property and all adaptations will be completely reversible."

The building is Grade II-listed and dates back to the late 17th century.

A heritage statement says Partick Pool is first recorded as "Patricpol" in historical documents dating back to around 1200 and that the building is a timber framed structure from the medieval period. Restoration work was carried out in the 1980s.

The application says: "This work [to turn the building into a hotel] will involve significant investment in its fabric (in terms of repair and ongoing maintenance) and will generate important public benefits at a time when city centres are suffering due to the effects of the Covid pandemic and structural changes in shopping and living patterns."

The heritage statement adds that the site is within the area of the former Roman fortress and a Roman bath house extended under the street in Patrick Pool.

It says: "Excavations in Patrick Pool (and Swinegate) have also revealed successive levels of settled occupation and burials over the 9th and 10th centuries associated with the nearby church of St Benedict.

"Given the location, it is highly likely that significant archaeological remains survive in the area of the site below ground."

View the application at planningaccess.york.gov.uk/online-applications reference 21/00746/FUL.