Plans for third pub in town scrapped
Plans to open a third Wetherspoons pub in Shrewsbury town centre have been scrapped. Plans to open a third Wetherspoons pub in Shrewsbury town centre have been scrapped. Pub bosses, however, said they have not ruled out looking at other venues. Wetherspoons had planned to open a new £1 million pub in a unit of the town's Pride Hill Shopping Centre creating up to 40 jobs. The move follows the opening of a second Wetherspoons pub, Montgomery's Tower, in Shrewsbury earlier this month. Plans for another pub in the former C&A store have been dogged by problems. The Pride Hill proposals, which were put forward towards the end of 2007, were put on hold after the application was processed under the wrong category. Read more in the Shropshire Star
Plans to open a third Wetherspoons pub in Shrewsbury town centre have been scrapped.
Pub bosses, however, said they have not ruled out looking at other venues.
Wetherspoons had planned to open a new £1 million pub in a unit of the town's Pride Hill Shopping Centre creating up to 40 jobs. The move follows the opening of a second Wetherspoons pub, Montgomery's Tower, in Shrewsbury earlier this month.
Plans for another pub in the former C&A store have been dogged by problems.
The Pride Hill proposals, which were put forward towards the end of 2007, were put on hold after the application was processed under the wrong category.The plans were then thrown into doubt after councillors pledged to impose strict conditions.
The conditions said the Pride Hill venue would have to keep surrounding streets clean and tidy for up to 50 metres and pay to link its CCTV system to the police's.
Borough councillors eventually backed down on officer's recommendations.
But Eddie Gershon, a spokesman for JD Wetherspoon, said the company had now decided not to go ahead with the plans at all. He said: "At the moment two pubs in Shrewsbury were preferred and it was decided not to look at the other site. It doesn't mean we won't look at any more in Shrewsbury."