Fresh plans for homes on Wellington pub site
Wednesday 22nd September 2010, 11:29AM BST.
A boarded-up 17th Century hotel in Wellington could be partially demolished and 41 homes built as part of a bid to redevelop the site.
The Charlton Arms Hotel has lain empty since a fire caused by an electrical fault in 2006.
Now Nextdom, which owns the former pub, is making a fresh bid to build homes on the site despite calls to re-open the Church Street hotel.
An application by the Liverpool firm for 42 homes at the Grade II listed building’s site was dismissed by a planning inspector last year.
Revised plans have now been submitted for the partial demolition and alterations to the existing building as well as the construction of 37 one and two-bedroom apartments and four two-bedroom terraced houses.
A bat survey has been carried out and found no evidence of the creatures in the building, which is currently on the market for £1.2 million.
A statement with the latest application says: “The revised scheme has been created to give due care and attention to the previous comments of English Heritage and those as mentioned by the planning inspector at the related planning appeal.”
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Oh, no! Not again! Why not sell it to someone who knows how to run a hotel of the stature of the Charlton Arms?
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Not the old mystery pub fire routine again?
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You would have thought the insurers would have repaired the damage by now!!!
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This is a very worrying development. The Charlton Arms has considerable potential to be a good town centre hotel/pub with the right sort of ownership and management. I do hope the people of Wellington and Telford send objections to the T and W Council’s planning sub-committee. This sort of vandalism to an historic building should not be allowed to happen. The T and W Council should put a CPO on the building!
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