TWENTY-SEVEN workshop and storage units are set to be built at an industrial site in Greenock after council officials approved the plans.

The units, at a business space on Dellingburn Street, across from the BP filling station, will be laid out in four terrace blocks and an existing vehicle garage and office building will remain.

Seventeen of the units will have a footprint of 15 square metres and the remaining 10 units will be 58 square metres.

An Inverclyde Council report on the decision to grant the application said: “The proposal will ensure that a partially vacant site is brought back into functional use.

“The site is potentially contaminated but subject to the conditions, the site will be made suitable for the intended use.”

One of the conditions of the approval is that development of the site, which is currently used as an informal parking space, must begin within three years.