WORK to convert a former Lindley factory into a new home for office staff at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary is continuing.

Personnel staff are to be re-housed in a building which formed part of Acre Mill, near the hospital's main gates on Acre Street.

The building on the sprawling site is being re-roofed.

It will soon be refurbished to comply with listed building rules.

The project is due to be completed in the summer and staff should move from the hospital in the early autumn.

Medical records staff and the pharmacy unit are also set to move elsewhere on the site.

Some of the site could also be used for hospital parking.

David Calderwood, spokesman for the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, said a number of buildings on the site were unsafe and permission had been given to demolish them.

The trust bought the complex from Wakefield- based wire and plastic makers Carlco Group in a £6.4m deal last June.

It used to house wiremakers Joseph Sykes, but the firm closed in October, 2002.