Officials are recommending plans to convert the 18th century Grade II-listed Kings Head on Bungay's Market Place into apartments should be approved.

Councillors are due to decide on the fate of the building - which closed as a hotel in 2012 - next week.

Ahead of the meeting, council officers have advised the conversion of the property - along with the nextdoor Odd Fellows Hall - should go ahead.

If councillors agree, it will bring to an end years of uncertainty about the prominent buildings, which have become an eyesore in the centre of the town.

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