The gate hopes to create a “more comfortable relaxed atmosphere” by revising a room on the upper floor for Punters and adding a new staircase.
The Blackwellgate event location described the space as a place where customers “chat with background music”.
Plans submitted to the Darlington Borough Council describe how bosses replace “tired” windows and want to modernize the front, suitable Julia balcony railing up to slices and wooden grain cladding.
The new stairs would be installed to enable the change of use on the first floor and would be on the ground floor next to the entrance lobby.
The floor plans show that the room on the upper floor would accommodate its own bar with access to the existing male and female toilets.
The gate initially applied for two folded doors in the lounge, with concept art showing a new “above the goal” sign on the outside of the building.
However, this was then changed in order to install new windows in their existing room instead in order to reduce the ability to sound on the street.
The latest plans do not show the signage “over the gate”.
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The dance floor on the ground floor would continue to work as usual according to the plans that the Council still have to be approved.
In an explanation in planning documents in the name of the owner Mustafa Babat it says: “The development will be sympathetic to the character and appearance of the conservation area and the design and the character of the existing building with small standards on proposed design details.”
If they are approved, the plans will mark the latest addition to the growing imperial quarter in the city. Last year, the opening of the Hummingbird in the former Hoskins Bar, the cherry tree in the former Avalon, the for Bar and the Restaurant.
The nearby Coniscliffe Road was partly partly this summer with new permanent seating outdoors for Hash, ORB, twenty two and Dr.