Plans to convert part of a former Victorian warehouse to apartments were met with no objections. Thorpes Warehouse is a historic grade-two listed building in Navigation Yard — on Millgate, Newark — which was bought with plans to convert the attractive industrial building overlooking the River Trent into residential apartments. Originally built in the 1870s, over the years the five storey warehouse has been used as a riverside barley store and malt house, an egg packing facility and most recently a pottery — but was vacant and the target of anti-social behaviour for a few years before it was ev…
