A new £1 million pub planned for Shrewsbury should not be able to have more than 300 customers in it at any one time if its licensing plans are approved, objectors have claimed.
JD Wetherspoon wants to open a new pub, which could create up to 40 jobs, in a unit of the Pride Hill Shopping Centre.
Bosses today said they wanted to open the pub from 7am to 11.30pm Mondays to Wednesdays, 7am to midnight Thursdays to Saturdays and from 7am to 11pm on Sundays.
Plans for the pub have already been approved after a wrangle over conditions was resolved. Now the firm, which hopes to open the pub in December or early next year, needs to have its application for a new premises licence approved.
Objectors have drawn up a string of conditions they want enforced - one of which states that 300 should be the maximum number of customers at any one time.
A report to Friday’s meeting of Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council’s licensing sub-committee says that if approved, pub bosses would have to adhere to conditions for the sale of alcohol, provision of regulated entertainment and opening hours.
It says that objectors have pulled together a list of conditions they want to be enforced including no more than 300 customers, no food or drink to be sold outside the bar, and that door supervisors be employed.
Today Eddie Gershon, a spokesman for JD Wetherspoon, said the firm did not know what the capacity of the pub would be, but said this would be determined by the fire authority.
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I get the distinct impression that this pub is not welcome in our county town.
Objectors say no more than 300 customers - how exactly did they work that one out? It would seem objectors have a special gift for working out Fire Regs and H&S before anyone else, before even the final plans have been produced.
Perhaps they are professional objectors!!!
is anything ever wanted in ‘our’ county town - progress beyond the 18th C without protests certainly isn’t.
Who ARE these objectors?
The pub with the DISGUSTING toilets? The one that serves cold food? When they can bother getting a ‘chef’ in, that is? That’s the one that adsvertises real lae and hasn’t had any for over a year.
The one that never bothers to properly clean the beer lines? The one where you stick to the floor, as it has not been cleaned properly in many months?
Matt,
DISGUSTING toilets, dirty beer lines and stick to the floor…I thought Rumours Night Club (wellington)was back…
i feel sure any wetherspoons pub will be welcome selling their ales at 70p a pint beneath other pubs. whether this shopping centre is the right place i will leave other people nearer to it to judge. but if i had been a planner in the desperate 1960’s neither of the shopping malls in pride hill would have been built the raven hotel and morris’s would still be in situ, as would the crown hotel. lloyds tsb would never have been allowed to build their monstrosity of a bank facing high street,and even now should be told to put a black and white timber frontage on their monstrosity and finally the georgian council buildings in the square would not have been allowed to have been demolished and the apology of a building that replaced it would never have been built, and while we are at it the market hall could have been rebuilt in a more soothing style. the planners responsible for this rape of shrewsbury should have been put up against a wall of rowleys mansion and shot. you may call me old fashiond if you like.
Ha Ha Ha. I hope the coucil tell the ‘objectors’ where to go.
Pub capacity, as ‘itsallajoke’ has pointed out, should be based around H&S and Fire Regs ~ not the feelings of a bunch of whinging nimbys.
what a load of 8/3 * pi *(r cubed)
That’s the formula for the volume of two spheres with a radius “r”
Thats balls etc …. !
devon salopian what a wonderful rant…. and absolutely right. The town has been raped of much of it’s individuality whilst the council still promote it’s ‘medieval charm’… Don’t even mention the theatre - I preferred the old Atlas Works!
on the outskirts of town at ditherington another old bit of shrewsbury is to be redeloped, yhe old midland red bus garage, now here is a fabulous place fo wetherspoons and they could run a small fleet of vintage midland red buses to pick up in town. selling beer at 70p a pint they could expand the midland red garage into the old steel framed mill behind. i think they could fit 10000 drinkers in these buildings, or do i jest ding ding full up another bus behind!!