Plans have been lodged for a builder's merchant to use a shipping container as a welfare facility at its site in a Norfolk market town. 

Travis Perkins, in Fakenham, could see a 20ft shipping container used as a welfare facility now that a planning application has been submitted to North Norfolk District Council.

The applicant, known only as Wilkinson, has applied for the installation of the container on the merchant's plot on Hawthorn Way.

A determination deadline is expected for October 16.