Niccolo Polo Pty Ltd has lodged the $520,000 development application to convert the 16 existing one bedroom units into eight two bedroom apartments.

The facility previously known as Larkins Court is located at 525 Cowper Street and hasn't been used for several years.

The plan also includes demolition of an existing recreation building containing a common room, laundry, kitchen and toilets.

Balcony areas will be created on units proposed for level one.

"The development application is basically for the adaptive reuse of existing residential building stock, with only minor external alterations and additions to existing residential buildings, and with the best use of available external ground-level space for maximum onsite car parking provision," planning consultants Blueprint states.

Each unit will have a designated parking area, but the developer is seeking a variation to council planning guidelines which state three visitor parking spaces must be provided when five to eight dwellings exist on a site.

"The site has a road frontage with on-street parallel parking provision," the development application states.

"The site is not located in a retail commercial area or a residential area with high on-street parking demand.

"Cowper Street is wide enough to accommodate two parallel parking lanes and two traffic lanes and most existing dwellings have two off-street car parking spaces meaning that on-street car parking availability is abundant.

"The site is also (close) to a bus stop at the intersection of Kiewa Street and Poole Street.

"The site analysis and design response undertaken for the adaptive reuse of the site resolved that in order to provide onsite visitor car parking in addition to resident parking a part or the whole of one or two of the existing residential buildings would need to be demolished.

"Doing this would mean that the proposal would not proceed."

Additional parking required on the site will be created in the space presently occupied by the recreation area which will be demolished.

Construction work is proposed to be carried out between 7am and 6pm on weekdays, and 8am to 5pm on Saturdays.