Another Shropshire pub is facing demolition for houses

Planning permission is being sought to build five homes on the site of the The Swan, in Waters Upton, Telford.

The application was submitted by Edis Developments in Shropshire Ltd to the planning committee at Telford & Wrekin Council on April 29.

However, it has not yet been validated or registered by councillors.

Thepub closed in 2007 after the licensees Steve and Sue Ralph claimed to have been squeezed out of business by high rents and over-priced beer by Punch Taverns, the UK's biggest pub company.

Katrina Baker, clerk to Waters Upton Parish Council, said since then a woman purchased the site from Punch Taverns where she ran a internet sales business, before it was purchased by the current owner.

She said five homes were currently under construction on the former pub's car park and the latest application could see the building demolished.

Waters Upton Parish Council will discuss the proposals at a meeting on June 24.

She said: "There are five dwellings under construction at the moment and they will be available by August so this application must be for an additional five homes on the land where the former pub building stands. We heard rumours of such an application but were not aware it had been submitted yet."

It comes after plans were submitted to build seven detached homes in the beer garden of another Shropshire pub.

The plans for land at the rear of the Acton Arms, in Morville, include five four-bedroomed houses and two three-bedroomed houses.

Applicants the New River Retail Property Unit Trust have also put money aside to invest in the pub, which is still trading, at a later date.

Elsewhere,plans to build homes on the site of deserted Telford pub, the Red Lion in Little Dawley, were refused.

Telford & Wrekin Council's planning committee turned down the application for the demolition of the pub to make way for eight houses.