Empty Northfields pub in Stamford to become store 'by year end'
A pub that that been empty for five years may at last become a long-awaited store.
The Northfields closed early in 2015, with plans for a store with parking announced in November 2016.
However, despite the conversion of the pub gaining approval from South Kesteven District council in July 2017, the site on Drift Road has remained empty.
This had led neighbours to complain of vandalism, who also say the site looks ‘an embarrassment.’
Last month, the developer behind the scheme withdrew a planning application to SKDC to convert the former pub.
However, the agent acting for London-based developer Basin Topco said this made no change to the scheme as the company still had an earlier planning approval for it.
Paul Sturgess of Milton Keynes-based Caldecott Group said: “Nothing has changed. We have always had a buyer for the site but they haven’t exchanged contracts.”
“It has taken a while but these things are never easy. It is very close.
“I should hope to say who the buyer is by the end of the year and see work start on the site by the end of the year.”
He added survey work on the site was still taking place for construction to begin by the year end.
