A convenience store on Sheppey might just become even more convenient after it submitted plans to open a café inside the shop.

Customers of Costcutter in Minster Road, Minster, at the junction with The Broadway, could soon be able to grab a cuppa as well as their weekly essentials, if the proposal is given the go ahead.

According to the application, on Swale council’s planning portal, the store is seeking to change part of the existing shop floor space from retail to café use.

“The existing dilapidated rear extension will be demolished and rebuilt on the existing footprint,” the application says.

“It will be used to house a replacement Post Office counter and incorporate ancillary space for the shop office, still room, and a WC cubicle.”

It adds: “The existing Post Office area will become a café and the Post Office area will be repositioned into the rebuilt and extended rear part of the building.”

The plans suggest the new café would have a servery and cooking area, as well as indoor seating.

There are two disabled parking bays at the shop out of a total of 26 marked parking spaces.

Access to the shop will remain level from the footpath, with some changes in store which will be managed by ramps with low gradients.

The current two small toilets will be removed and replaced with an accessible toilet cubicle that will be for men and women, as well as disabled and non-disabled members of the public and staff.

So far, there have been no letters of support or objections to the plans.

To view or comment on them, visit pa.midkent.gov.uk/online-applications and search using the reference 21/506190/FULL