A 140-year-old leather and luggage shop is set to be converted into a new restaurant and flats.

The historic Knowles Travelgoods in Broad Street, Worcester, which dates back to 1884, looks set to be stripped and turned into a new restaurant according to a recently revealed planning application.

The family-run leather and luggage store, which has been passed through five generations, announced in August it would be closing its doors after the building was sold.

The new plans would see the ground floor turned into a new restaurant with an extra storey added to the front of the building and another two storeys to the rear to make way for seven new flats – including five two-bed and two one-bed flats.

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The latest plan for a new restaurant is one of several planned for Broad Street - including a new restaurant on the site where the county’s most famous sauce was first made.

The new restaurant will be taking over the vacant unit at 68 Broad Street in Worcester– where chemists John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins first joined forces to create Worcestershire Sauce more than 180 years ago.

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Worcester City Council also approved a plan for a new café in Broad Street last month.

Beauty salon Pura will be turned into a new café under plans by chef Ashley Quinn after the move was backed by planners.

The existing salon would move to the rear of the ground floor grade II listed building and run separately from the new café.

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A new Victorian-style shopfront would be built to match neighbouring buildings in Broad Street and fix the damage to the current entrance.

And plans to turn an empty five-storey building and former phone shop in Broad Street into a new pub called the Cocky Anchor were backed in 2022.

Hampshire-based developer Anchor Real Estate is converting the grade II listed building opposite the Wetherspoon-owned Crown into a new micropub serving beers and ales as well as selling takeaway bottles and cans.

A new conservatory and decking would also be built on the top floor “offering a unique experience with views across a wide area of the city centre that has been out of reach for the general public for several decades.”