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New restaurant plan for boarded-up village pub
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| The Dew Drop Inn. |
A VILLAGE pub which closed 18 months ago could reopen with a restaurant and seven bedrooms.
Peter Burgoyne, of Shoulton Investments Ltd, Hallow, wants to breathe new life into the Dewdrop Inn, in Bell Lane, Lower Broadheath, near Worcester,which has been boarded up since September 2006.
He has applied for planning permission to refurbish the pub, build a restaurant catering for 80 to 90 covers, provide seven bedrooms and enlarge the car park to take 31 vehicles. The scheme, which goes before members of Malvern Hills District Council northern area development control committee on Wednesday April 2, is being recommended for approval subject to amended plans re-siting the kitchen and showing a suitable extraction system. Two years ago the then owners Amek Investments (Commercial) Ltd applied to build three homes in the grounds of the Dewdrop Inn.
This prompted a huge response from villagers and 179 people signed a petition objecting to the scheme, which was eventually rejected by the district council.
The current application has produced a mixed reaction including support from the Campaign for Real Ale Worcester branch and some villagers, while others are concerned about increased traffic, noise nuisance and smells from the kitchen.
Planning officer Simon Jones says: "The proposal is of a scale likely to ensure there is sufficient custom to sustain a viable business, so that the local community may benefit from the facility.
"The site lies within reasonable walking distance of a large number of residential properties."
He says the proposed extension would not lead to excessive overshadowing, overbearing or overlooking other properties and the layout means the development would not dominate or detract from the main Georgian building.
"Officers consider the proposal would not result in harm to residential amenity and presents an opportunity to secure the future of a community facility," says Mr Jones.
8:30am Friday 28th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: iceman77, Lower Broadheath on 8:51pm Sat 29 Mar 08
It is about time that this building was regenerated and put to it's right and proper use. it has become an eyesore and and will soon become a magnet to trouble if allowed to stay in it's present state.
opening of a restuarant will revitalise the area and hopefully provide employment to some of the local population - hopefully some of the youngsters.
i am certainly looking forward to it's opening and hope it will be family friendly.
It is about time that this building was regenerated and put to it's right and proper use. it has become an eyesore and and will soon become a magnet to trouble if allowed to stay in it's present state.
opening of a restuarant will revitalise the area and hopefully provide employment to some of the local population - hopefully some of the youngsters.
i am certainly looking forward to it's opening and hope it will be family friendly.
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