Permission has been granted to convert a pub in Wellingborough into housing.
Wellingborough Council approved the application to change the use of The Fox and Hounds in Gold Street from public house to residential at a meeting last week.
Conditions of the approval stated that the development shall start within three years of the permission being granted.
The planning permission letter also stated: “The applicant is reminded that this decision relates to a change of use only.
“This site is a Grade II listed building and therefore if any internal or external works (including the removal of the signs) are carried out to the property/site then listed building consent will be required.
“No further works should be carried out unless and until a listed building application is submitted and granted.”
The original application included documents which said the pub is not making a profit and two other pubs in the same road have already closed and been turned into housing.
A letter signed by Chris Smart and Jackie English, which was submitted as part of the application, stated: “The pub is not trading at a profit, it has not for many years, the freeholder Jackie English has been in the business for 30 years and cannot make this work.
“The business has been up for sale for 2.5 years and no-one has taken an interest as a pub or anything of that nature.
“There were two previous public houses on Gold Street, the Railway Club and Dun Cow which have since closed and been knocked down and replaced with apartments.
“It will be in the best interest of the building and the owner for this pub to be a residential dwelling as it is in keeping with the area plus it is Grade II listed and it needs a home owner to appreciate the history of this property.”
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