Empty shop in Scarborough to become laundrette after approval

​Albemarle Chambers in Scarborough’s town centre will be turned into a laundrette offering dry cleaning services after a plan by Unique Home Properties was given the green light.

​The public self-service laundrette will allow residents to wash and dry their own laundry using coin- or card-operated machines, while assisted laundry services, where customers can drop off laundry to be washed, dried, ironed and professionally packaged for later collection, will also be available.

​According to submitted plans, commercial and corporate laundry services will also be provided to service hotels, guesthouses, care homes and other corporate businesses.

​The laundry will be dropped off at the premises and collected following processing or delivered via managed transport arrangements, the plans state.

​Dry-cleaning services would operate as an ancillary component of the business.

​The vacant property was recently converted to create three commercial units on the ground floor with 12 residential apartments on the upper floors.

​The commercial unit 4 in Albemarle Crescent has been vacant for a long time, the applicant noted.

​Located off Westborough, the area is characterised by a “strong mix of retail, service, food and drink and professional uses at ground floor level, with residential apartments and ancillary uses above,” a report states.

​It adds that the site “benefits from excellent accessibility, being within walking distance of residential neighbourhoods, public transport routes and local amenities”.

​The application was approved by North Yorkshire Council, subject to conditions, on Friday, May 22.