It’s last orders for two more pubs set for redevelopment
PLANS have been revealed to convert two more former pubs into new homes and a care facility.
A planning application has been submitted to turn what was the Travellers Call, on Glossop Road in Marple Bridge, Stockport into two houses.
Stockport council has also received an application for the former Adswood Hotel, on Adswood Lane West in Cale Green.
It has come from Indigo Planning and seeks to turn the pub, which shut in 2013, into a 60-bed care home.
Coun Philip Harding, who is on the planning committee, said: “It is a shame for many of these places and the drinking heritage is shrinking. Pubs are where people come together and are good meeting points, but the community no longer uses pubs like they did.
“A good thing is that these places are being redeveloped and not just lying empty to decay.”
Another former pub earmarked for redevelopment is the Bow Garrett, on Brinksway in Cheadle Heath, which was built in 1774.
Ye Olde Woolpack, also on Brinksway, is shut and up for sale on Right Move for £265,000.
Permission has also been given to convert much of the White Lion, on Great Underbank in the town centre, into flats. The go-ahead was given at the end of last year to turn what was the Little Jack Horner, on Lord Street, in the town centre, into a Korean restaurant. Jim Flynn, from the South Manchester branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), says the organisation is disappointed with the number of pub closures in Stockport and elsewhere.
He added: “I hope there is still a place for the traditional pub and I suspect the period of mass closures has come to an end in most areas. But he traditional pub will be under pressure for some time.”