Councillors will next week decide whether to allow a Leamington nightclub to be partly demolished to make way for more student flats.

Developer Ni Ann Ltd has already seen applications to turn Smack on Tavistock Street into 47 flats and 48 flats respectively refused, with Warwick District Council planners saying the schemes would be damaging to the heritage of the building.

The company has since submitted another application, which would see much of the existing building retained and another built to create seven student apartments with a total of 32 bedrooms.

Plans stated: "The scale and massing have been significantly reduced, with development constrained to sit approximately 1.2 metres below the eaves level of the Parade terrace.

"In street views, the building reads as a three-storey form, reinforcing the historic hierarchy between Parade as a primary street and Tavistock Street as a secondary service street.

"The revised massing, articulation and setbacks materially reduce both actual and perceived bulk when compared with the refused schemes."

The application is due to go before the council's planning committee next week.

But despite five people writing in support of the plans, council planners have recommended the application be refused.

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A council report said: "It is noted that the proposed extent of demolition of the curtilage listed building in this revised scheme represents an improvement overall to the previously refused scheme.

"It is however considered that the proposed demolition works will result in a loss of significance, form and character, severing the connection to the grade II listed buildings on Parade, and that the proposed redevelopment, by reason of its height, scale, mass, bulk and design, will culminate in an unacceptable level of harm to the heritage assets.

"Whilst it is acknowledged that the level of harm in comparison to the previous scheme has been reduced, it is also important to note that any identified potential public benefits have also been reduced."

See the full planning application here.

An artist's impression of the proposed development (image via planning application)