DEVELOPERS converting a former church in Rawtenstall into flats have asked permission to build a further two flats in a second floor extension.

The former Springside Furniture Depository, off Newchurch Road, which used to be a chapel, is already in the middle of being converted into eight one bedroom flats.

An adjacent site between the building and Newchurch Road has ben approved for eight car parking spaces, it is now proposed to reduce the landscape strip near to Newchurch Road to increase the spaces to ten.