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Search the Public Notice Portal WORKS to transform an empty York village pub are soon set to be underway.
A new application which will allow works to turn the Murton Arms, in Murton, into a café has been lodged with City of York Council, according to agents Directions Planning Consultancy Ltd.
The conversion is set to see the pub, in Moor Lane, brought back into use eight years after it shut.
Plans for the works stated turning the empty building into a café would give people somewhere to socialise in a village which lacks community facilities.
The submission of a new discharge of conditions application comes after plans for the works were approved in April.
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Works will be able to start on the conversion of the empty pub once council planning officers rule on the latest application.
The plans come after the pub, which previously traded as The Bay Horse and under various other names historically, first closed at the start of 2017.
It reopened briefly that August before closing again the following January after struggling to attract enough customers to be viable.
The building dates back to the 18th Century.
The ground floor of the Murton Arms which is set to be converted into a café
(Image: Zoopla)
Plans approved by council officers are set to see the building’s ground floor turned into a café and the first floor turned into a three-bedroom apartment.
The application stated no interest had been shown in reopening the venue as a pub when it was on the market between November 2024 and last December.
It added the only interest had come from those who wanted to turn it into either a café or restaurant.
The conversion was backed by Osbaldwick and Derwent ward’s Restore councillor Mark Warters and York Civic Trust.
But the Yorkshire Barn Café objected, saying there were already three similar businesses trading in the area and questioned whether the café could be a building for the community.
They said: “The hospitality industry is struggling with rising costs and fewer customers.
“Allowing a café in a rural area would be detrimental to other business.”
The Campaign For Pubs also objected, saying the conversion would result in the loss of a unique resource and that evidence the pub was not financially viable was lacking.
Applicants said a viable use needed to be found for the building to stop it from deteriorating further.
Plans stated: “There are very few facilities within Murton to serve the community, there is no shop, library, post office, village hall or youth group.
“A café in this location would share the main characteristics of a local pub, offering a place in which to socialise.
“It would undoubtedly provide an equivalent community facility to be used predominantly by the local Murton community to meet their day-to-day needs.”