The potential future for a once popular school uniform shop has been revealed.

Plans to convert The Sewing Shop, in Echo Square, Gravesend, into a laundrette have been submitted to Gravesham council.

The owners of the store unexpectedly announced it was closing last year due to health reasons, shocking parents who were waiting to collect orders with a note on the door telling them it was shut.

It directed them to a new supplier, Simmonds and Sons, a 10-mile drive away at the Dockside Outlet Centre in Chatham.

The shop, which spanned two units on the parade, stocked uniforms for almost every primary and secondary school in the borough and parents had been using it to kit their children out for decades.

It has been vacant since May last year but four months later a planning application was submitted to Gravesham council to change the use of one of the units to a kebab shop.

Echo’s Kebabs subsequently opened its doors in September this year.

Now, proposals for the second empty unit have been drawn up looking to change the use of the premises to a laundrette.

Applicant Ilkkan Bellikli, of London-based firm, Go To Professional Services, said the business will hire one full-time and two part-time staff members.

If approved, it will be open seven days a week from 9am to 8pm.

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A decision is expected by Friday, January 17.