Published:
3:54 PM March 8, 2021
Updated:
5:32 PM March 8, 2021
Wetherspoon had hoped to open in this Grade II listed former boarding house for King s Ely student. Planners turned them down.
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JD Wetherspoon has been refused permission to convert a Grade II listed house in Ely into one of its pubs.
The pub chain bought the former King’s Ely boarding house at 24 St Mary s Street – East Cambridgeshire District Council has refused its plans to transform the building.
It stated the size of the extension being proposed was considered “to be disproportionate to the to its host building” and the pub is too close to residential areas.
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