They couldn’t find a buyer as offices, so now the owner of 104 Ash Road is applying for planning permission to convert them into flats.

If granted, the two new flats will each have a bedroom, bathroom and an open-plan living room with kitchen and diner.

There aren’t any parking spaces but both flats will have their own secure cycle parking at ground level.

You can read the full planning application for 104 Ash Road online. The consultation period ends on 13 March.

A bogus charity clothes recycling bank has been removed by Sutton Council. Operators Green World Recycling had not sought planning permission before leaving it on the pavement outside Favorite Chicken on Stonecot Hill.

According to the operators, proceeds from the sale of the donated goods would be given towards “essential environmental projects” run by the Gaia Movement Trust — after operating costs had been deducted. But an investigation by the Independent in 2000 found that no money from the proceeds of recycling had been donated to charity during the first three years of operation.

Neither Green World Recycling nor the Gaia Movement Trust are registered as charities in England. Its predecessor organisation, Humana UK, which ran similar clothes recycling schemes, was closed down by the Charity Commission in 1999.