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Several days before we were awarded the ACV the pub was sold with the tenancy intact and and the pub continued operating. The ACV protected the ground floor and basement as a pub. The new owners quickly applied (May 2016)for planning permission to convert the upper floors into five flats. They then put it on the market again and eventually it was sold in 2017/2018. The new owner applied to extend the upstairs development to 7 flats but planning permission was refused. Around this time the owner contacted the NDF to discuss his proposals. He then reapplied to add a mansard roof (moved back from the frontage) containing two studio flats which were added to the previously approved 5 bedroom scheme. The application which also included improvements to the exterior of the existing building was approved, with support of the NDF, in June 2019, on the basis that it would help the viability and survival of the pub.

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