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Search the Public Notice PortalThe owner of a Herefordshire pub’s decision to drop plans to turn it into a house has been welcomed by a local campaigner.
John Leonard of the Temeside Inn, Little Hereford between Tenbury and Ludlow applied late last year for planning permission to convert the disused pub into a four-bedroom house “for a local family”.
He claimed there was “no prospect whatsoever that the necessary significant financial investment required to return the pub to a trading business will ever be forthcoming”, a conclusion backed by an accompanying viability report.
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But Mark Haslam, Herefordshire representative of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) objected that the premises had been inadequately marketed as a pub, that its long-term commercial viability was “not proven” and that its loss would hit the local community.
He said that among the 240-odd pubs the CAMRA monitors in the county, the Temeside had been “the only one on our radar” in immediate threat of conversion.
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More than 20 locals also objected to bid, which was formally withdrawn on May 28.
Having opened in the 1970s in a former house, the Temeside Inn was forced to shut in 2020 following flood damage from the river Teme which runs alongside it.
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Mr Leonard then applied in late 2023 to build 12 “glamping lodges” to the rear of the building, which he said would “secure its long-term future as a viable local pub”.
But planners rejected this due to the perceived flood risk to the lodges, and also the pollution they could cause to enter the protected river.
There was no reply at the published phone number of the Temeside Inn, which remains fenced off from the A456 alongside.
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