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Search the Public Notice PortalPlans have been put forward to turn a disused Herefordshire country pub into three flats.
Phil Calladine of the former Hopton Arms, Ashperton near Ledbury is seeking planning permission (application 253136 ) to turn the pub, thought to have closed around four years ago, into two one-bedroom and one three-bedroom apartments.
Ordinarily for a change of this sort, it has to be shown that a former pub could neither be sold or sustained as a commercial venture, nor retained by the community.
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And though the Hopton was previously classed as an “asset of community value”, restricting what could be done with it, that status was lifted in 2021, Mr Calladine’s application says.
It adds that the local community of Ashperton had been given two opportunities to buy the pub, but “saw fit not to offer to purchase” it.
The Trumpet Inn just over a mile away meanwhile “provides a very close alternative public house facility”, it adds.
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Accompanying plans show the pub, which previously contained four en-suite letting rooms as well as manager’s accommodation, would have the two smaller flats on the ground floor, separated by a new partition.
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Walls would meanwhile be removed from the first floor to form the more spacious three-bedroom flat, with separate ground-floor entrance.
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Local CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) representative Mark Haslam, who has helped see off several pub conversion attempts, said his organisation had yet to decide whether to oppose this application, and was keen to gather local views on it.
Consultation on the proposal closes on January 21.
The Hopton Arms meanwhile still appears to be on sale with local estate agents Sidney Phillips at an asking price of £295,000, offering “a great opportunity for a hands-on owner operator to develop their own style of pub”.
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