PLANS for a replacement timber cabin at a Carlisle cattery have been submitted to Cumberland Council.

The proposal is for Snuggles Cattery in Burgh Road and the replacement structure for domestic and commercial use.

In the application form the applicant states: "We have a log cabin – 25.8 square metres internal area – that we are hoping for retrospective planning approval to continue its commercial use and also to add nine square metres of additional internal space on an area currently occupied by an existing building.

"The additional nine square metres would be dual use residential/commercial with two existing outbuildings are to be removed."

According to the application form the development would have space to two additional off-road parking for two cars. The form states: "We are fully insured and inspected regularly by the city's environmental team and licensed to keep up to 50 cats at any one time – although we rarely get above 25."

The form states that the business employs four staff, two of which are resident at the same address, and they have never received any complaints and generally get on well with the neighbours.

The application is currently being considered by planning officers at the council.