THE former listed home of a city jewellers is finally set to be spruced after being left to rot.

The grade II listed building in Angel Street in Worcester has been completely empty since 2016 and new plans show how the deteriorating former shop and jewellers would be brought back to life.

The building, which has been split into two units including The Mine Jewellers which shut in 2016 and BSM Driving School which closed its doors in 2002, would become one ground floor shop under the new plans by Arshad Multani, with the remaining floors converted into flats.

Worcester City Council did give permission for the building to be transformed into a new shop and flats in 2016 but the work was never carried out.

After the shops closed, the doorways of the listed building became a sight of sex, drug-taking and overdosing and urinating.

The grade II listed building in Angel Street was originally a house dating back to 18th century and shopfronts from the 19th century that were later refurbished in the 1980s.

The application reveals some of the details of the proposed renovation but also asks for security gates to be installed on the building as an “urgent measure.”

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The planned refurbishment would be one of several transformations in Angel Street and Angel Place in the coming months.

Worcester City Council is pressing ahead with its multi-million-pound plans to open a new performing arts venue at the nearby former Scala Theatre.

The council submitted a planning application at the start of the year which would include a new 500-seat venue but the work was scaled back because of money woes.

The council ended up ditching several parts of the project – including a separate 110-seat venue, dance studio and rehearsal space – to help pay for the centrepiece Scala work.

Council bosses were left sweating over the increasing cost of the cornerstone project – which had spiralled because of the rising cost of construction and materials – and relied on government ministers giving the green light to move £6 million away from the council’s other scrapped projects to pump all the money into making sure the new arts venue gets built.