A business owner has applied to turn her health food shop into a flat.

The shop called Man Shuen Hong in Tring Close, Barkingside, will be converted into a ground floor flat if Redbridge Council grant permission.

In documents accompanying the application the agent Tony Fisk of Churley and Associates said: "The owner of the property has had difficulty in running this as a going conercen and as she has found that the value of the property has, in fact, been recorded by commercial agents as being very low as the location is not a prime location for business or commerical enterprise."

There are already two self-contained flats above the shop.

No date has yet been set for a decision on the application.