A Herefordshire village pub is to become home to a roadside milk vending machine.

The Tarrington Arms on the A438 at Tarrington between Hereford and Ledbury changed hands last October following a local campaign to save it.

Its new owners now plan to turn the garden and play area to the west of the pub into a 14-space car park, including a “temporary wooden structure” to house the milk vending machine, accessible 24 hours a day.

A new garden area would then replace the current car park behind the pub – a move which would solve the “safety concern” of the play area being accessed across the car park driveway, Lesley Cole’s application says.

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New gates would prevent drivers going beyond the new car park, while a currently “collapsing” retaining wall by a stable block to the rear would be rebuilt around a new storage area.

“We would also like to extend water and waste to the area at the side of the stable block for a potential future project,” her application adds.

Comments on the application, numbered 231119, can be made until May 27.

Formerly the Foley Arms, the late 18th-century inn is grade II listed.