The planning application for the work on the former Hyde Newsagency has been submitted to Winchester City Council.

The property at 34 Hyde Street was vacated by its previous tenant at the beginning of November with work planned to make alterations to the rear of the building, but to keep the original shop frontage.

A company called 34 Hyde Street Limited purchased the property and is looking for potential buyers to run a business there and to potentially live in the flat above as well.

The planning application was submitted to the city council by the director of 34 Hyde Street Limited, Guy Macklin.

It says: “Partial change of use of commercial space to residential purposes within an existing mixed-use building (retaining commercial floorspace to ground floor rooms to front of building); rear extension and internal alterations; enclosure and gate along south boundary.”

When Mr Macklin spoke to the Chronicle last month, he said that it was important to the company to keep the shop frontage has it has a longstanding legacy in the area, with a shop first opening at the property in 1894.

It was then acquired by Edith Best in 1925 and was managed by her son Leonard and then by his son, Eric.

The shop, which is at 34 Hyde Street, was closed during the war and when it reopened, it became a newsagency.