ANOTHER eyesore city centre building, which looked set to be turned into flats, has been scrapped from council regeneration plans.

Worcester City Council said it is no longer looking to buy the largely vacant and dilapidated Trinity House building on the corner of the city’s St Nicholas Street and Queen Street as part of its multi-million-pound regeneration project in the city centre.

The council said plans which would have seen the building converted into a number of new apartments has been scrapped with the owners of the building now set to redevelop it under its own, so far unknown, plans.

Alternative sites in the city centre which could be used for apartments will now be looked at by the council.

A report, which will be discussed by the city council’s policy and resources committee on Tuesday, said: “The council has engaged with the existing owners of Trinity House since the successful award of the Future High Streets Fund.

“It is now apparent that the owners of the building propose to invest capital and redevelop the building in accordance with their own proposals.

“The council welcomes this investment in the town centre and continues in dialogue with the owners to encourage the future development.

“This private investment presents the opportunity for the council to identify new opportunities to […] transform alternate derelict and redundant sites and buildings.”

Trinity House sits at the corner of St Nicholas Street and Queen Street and was home to a former Co-op department store in the 1960s.

Worcestershire County Council sold Trinity House, which was home to a former Co-op store in the 1960s, in 2014 after moving its archive and archaeology department to the Hive two years earlier leaving it largely empty.

The county council had teamed up with the city council - which owns the neighbouring Cornmarket car park – to try and sell both as part of a deal.

John Lewis had eyed up the building before putting forward a £150 million retail park plan to open off Newtown Road in 2016 before those grand plans were roundly rejected by the council’s planning committee.

Just last week, the city council revealed it would be offering up to £30,000 to landlords to spruce up tired and empty buildings in the city’s Angel Street and The Cross as part the major regeneration work.

The scheme will be open to the owners – and some tenants – of buildings in the two city centre streets and will cover up to three-quarters of the total cost of the improvement work.