A VILLAGE chapel could soon be converted into a new home.
Nigel Heckman has applied to Denbighshire County Council, seeking planning permission to convert Eglwys Methodist Church and vestry in Tremeirchion.
Mr Heckman wants to convert the chapel into a home.
The conversion includes the demolition and rebuilding of the vestry and the erection of a single storey extension, the formation of vehicular access, parking area and associated works.
But Tremeirchion, Cwm, and Waen Community Council is opposed to the plans, citing access, concerns about the septic tank, the loss of a community building and the impact on neighbouring properties as the reasons.
The community council also said the loss of the chapel windows could be damaging to the character of the area.
The Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Joint Advisory Committee, though, recommended the council back the plans.
“The conversion of the chapel will secure a positive use for the building and retain its existing appearance in the landscape,” a committee statement read.
“The proposed new contemporary link extension with the vestry provides a contrasting but sympathetic extension connecting the two buildings. It does not detract from the character and appearance of the chapel building.
“Subject to the removal of permitted developments rights, the AONB Joint Committee raise no objections to this application.”
But the Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust said that the conversion would “significantly alter the Tremeirchion Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, a chapel built in 1889 in the Simple Gothic style”.
The trust suggested a record should be made of the building’s current state.
Denbighshire’s highways officer had concerns about parking and visibility, but planning officers have recommended the application should be approved by the committee.
The application is set to be discussed at a planning committee meeting at Denbighshire County Council’s Ruthin County Hall HQ on Wednesday.