Station Hotel, Bawtry
Plans to demolish a pub in Doncaster:
No plans as of yet to utilise this site which is currently occupied by this pub and a large courtyard and stable building to the rear. Shame
Pontefract Corner Pub
The latest pub to be rendered flat is the Old Mill in South Kirkby, Pontefract: https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails 
This pub has piqued my interest as it occupies quite an awkward site on an acute corner, and brings together the two branching streets very neatly. It reminds me that pubs were often a hub of a community positioned at confluences like this. Not an ancient building by any means but the interesting frontage with high chimney flues and large bay windows demonstrate the right balance between modesty and ostentation that is difficult to get right. Sadly the replacement buildings do not acknowledge this form at all, completely ignoring the corner which is actually an asset to this site, and offers the constraint needed to produce an interesting architectural solution.
Two Sheffield pubs
The Arbourthorne Hotel in Sheffield has had an application for demolition submitted against it:
Not an ancient building by any means but I thought it worth documenting another loss of a pub. Built within an array of red brick housing for a mining community, these pubs/working mens’ clubs are a clear continuation of Victorian utopianism and philthanthropy in the wake of TItus Salt, Robert Owen et al.
Another pub in Sheffield soon to be lost is the Mason’s Arms:
Another pub that has lost its relevance as the surrounding industry waned. Quite striking quoining and a generally robust building that could be key to a regeneration in this area, but alas it is presumably just an asset in the portfolio of a brewery.
Former Talbot Hotel and Pub, Batley
A very tired looking old pub looks to be lost soon in Batley;
http://www2.kirklees.gov.uk/business/planning/application_search/detail.aspx?id=2015%2f90204
Drinking Establishments often sprung up in industrial areas, to be populated by thirsty mill workers. Yet with the demise of industry, these public houses have become obsolete. It always ignites my imagination when I come across an old pub in a derelict former industrial area and consider how it would thrive.
There wont be too many of these pubs left now, which is a shame, because a resurgence in niche pubs that are removed from the bustle of the town centre are slowly becoming popular. Sometimes people like to drink beer nestled within a landscape of iron and brick.
The Old Roundabout Pub, Stanningly
A large site clearance in Stanningly, Leeds will involve the demolition of The Old Roundabout pub:
Although only in outline application stage, I assume that the extent of the redline boundary will be cleared if permission is granted, which in the east Leeds housing market is almost certain.
If only planners had the power to add conditions to planning permissions that stipulate the retention of historic assets within a site, I’m certain development would still occur, but with a vital allusion to our history still visible.
Tramway Pub. Sheffield
A nice little corner site on London Road in Sheffield was once home to this thriving pub. Long abandoned, it is a shame the premises can’t hold out a little longer for some gentrification, and a new lease of life as a wine bar.
At present there are no plans to build here, so I am assuming the land will be utilised as a car park. This is a high street, and bit by bit it will be pulled down, leaving nothing. Planners need to figure out how they can stop wanton demolition. Lets get something enshrined in law soon.
Royal Public House in Shipley
Here is Yorkshire not a week goes by without the promise of the demolition of a Victorian public house. This stately pub in Shipley has its neck under the guillotine.
They don’t make chimneys like that anymore, do they?
Pubs always tend to be the last vestige of real urban life in Yorkshire towns, before the well meaning utopian created their short lived tower block paradises. This area of Shipley is brutal and sparse, but this pub reminds us of a time of lively streets and genuine urban culture. Without the mills though, who can prop up the bar?
Demolishing a Pub…to extend a car park
Closed pubs can be awkward to convert due to large car parks and difficulty in adapting, and so the option to demolish is often taken, as I have highlighted almost each week on this blog. This is unforgivable but at least is tenuously justified. To demolish a victorian pubic house to extend a car park is simply unacceptable:
The Ring of Bells in Cleckheaton seems lijkely to succumb to this fate.
This building is vital to the quickly eroding street front, and has more economic potential standing and waiting for a few years for a use, than as a tarmac recess.
I can’t imagine Kirklees council allowing this to pass, but sadly the lack of a local plan will ensure democracy in all matters of spatial planning is not realised. Everyone in West Yorkshire could oppose this and it would still happen.
Another pub to be levelled
This blog is fast becoming a list of public houses that are threatened with demolition. I can’t help but think that those who apply for demolition of these proprties are probably the same people who extoll the importance of the local as a forum for a community. When its another community though, who cares???
So a pub in this area is no longer viable, this we have to accept, but lets not destroy the building, negating a pub being reinstated in South Crossland. Why not use the property for commercial purposes or flats, and then squeeze in a couple of mews dwelling next door. This would improve the street frontage, retain the pub and fill your pockets with silver Mr Builder!
Certainly embodies something of the colliery culture of West Yorkshire, and im sure will be missed by the people of Scholes.
The Old Brick Works at Blackley Hill, Elland has been disused or a while and is set for demolition to be replaced by 80 dwellings. Classic suburbanisation. No proision of public transport, and as such we can assume there will be at least 50 return car journeys to Leeds/Bradford/Huddersfield each day.
And to look at the plans, you might well think this is Californian dessert. Very uninspiring placemaking. Functional building, with the only utility considered being privacy.
The Demolition Register 