Former Fox Hotel, Brotherton
Former pub, most recently an Indian restaurant, to be knocked down:
This is a prior notification, so no recourse to the planning system here – a planning officer can not refuse permission if all the clauses of permitted development legislation are met.
However, one of these clauses does not allow demolition of ‘drinking establishments etc.’ or ‘drinking establishments with expanded food provision’.
So the question is whether Thall Restaurant is considered to be a pub that over time has become a restaurant through expanded food provision.
Lots of pubs have gone in this direction, particularly in these type of A-road locations. Often this happened without altering the use class of the building, which would technically mean it is still a pub with expanded food provision.
I have written to the case officer for clarity. It would be great to save this building in this way, as levering this clause into the legislation was a long battle with the planning system.
This is a 20th century rebuild of an earlier pub that sat amidst a hamlet of buildings prior to the enlargement of the highway.
The old maps also reveal a village known as Water Fryston to the West of this site that seems to have vanished.
An undated image of the pub in its heyday, prior to demolition of the neighbouring buildings.
Map showing the pub, circa 1900
The Demolition Register 