THREE buildings in Rossendale are facing markedly different futures after separate proposals were unveiled to turn them all into either apartments or a family home.

Oliver Chadwick wants to turn the former Conservative Club in Bacup into four flats and the Haslingden-based businessman lodged a planning application with Rossendale Council.

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The original Conservative Club moved a few yards down the road to the Pioneer Buildings a number of years ago, and attempts have been made to make a success of the ‘Owd Con Club’ ever since.

Ian Heald has also unveiled proposals to convert the former Flowers Inn, once a popular bikers’ pub, into family accommodation after spending more than a year on the market.

He is seeking to redevelop the property, off Todmorden Road, on behalf of the Enid Heald Trust Fund.

Lesley Watmough, of pub property agents Fleurets, said: “The property has been unoccupied and not traded since August 2014 and requires refurbishment to bring it into use.”

Meanwhile the former Commercial Hotel in Stacksteads, which has had a chequered few years, may have seen its last pint pulled.

MSI Property Investments Ltd is behind a bid to transform the pub and two neighbouring shops into eight apartments.

Previously the property, at the corner of Blackwood Road, was given planning permission to be transformed into four shops and four flats but the project was never advanced.

Supporters of the scheme have stressed it should not have any bearing on the nearby grade II listed 320 and 322 Newchurch Road and Holy Trinity Church.

Planning agent Farooq Rafiq said: “It is not considered that the change of use of the application property would in any way impact on the nearby listed heritage assets.

“The proposal would not see any extensions to the property nor are materials which would detract from the setting of the church for example, being proposed.”

Other pubs to be converted to alternative uses in the valley in recent times include at least two in Rawtenstall, with the Rams Head now a hair salon and Madison’s taking on a new life as a restaurant.