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A POPULAR town centre pub could expand into a vacant bank unit if new plans are approved.
A planning application to expand the Myrtle Grove, a Wetherspoons pub on Bingley’s Main Street has been submitted to Bradford Council.
The proposals would see the pub expand into the neighbouring Natwest Bank unit, which has been vacant since 2017 and is currently shuttered.
Similar plans were approved by Bradford Council in 2020, just weeks before the Covid 19 national lockdown, but the works have never been carried out.
If approved, the bank space would become an extended customer area for the pub, with staff areas and a new female toilet on the first floor.
The ex-bank’s rear servicing area would become a beer garden.
The bank's safe will be re-purposed as a seating area.
The Myrtle Grove in Bingley (Image: T&A)
The pub is one of the most popular night spots in Bingley, and has found itself mentioned in the Camra Good Beer Guide.
Its toilets have also been praised, receiving a platinum grading in the 2025 Loo of the Year awards.
The current building was constructed in 1921 as the Myrtle Cinema. The cinema closed in the 1964, with the building re-purposed as a super market.
The supermarket then later closed and JD Wetherspoon purchased the site and opened the Myrtle Grove in 2000.
The planning application says: “The pub has been successful in its life and JD Wetherspoon are now looking to extend the operation.
“The proposed works are to create a new extended customer area to the now redundant NatWest bank building creating additional covers within the existing bank footprint.
“The first floor of the building will host staff areas and female toilet facilities.
“The existing shopfront to the NatWest building will be replaced to align with the existing pubs The rear service yard will be re-purposed into a drinking area for the public being enclosed in a timber fence.
“The application aims to improve the volume of customer area and external drinking area within the neighbouring building only keeping the existing public house at its current size.
“The development overall will have a minimal impact on the local area and will improve the visual appearance of the neighbouring building currently unoccupied.
"Visually the two buildings will be more tied together with the finishes of one being extended into the other The creation of a pavement area to the front of the site will also improve the street scene.”
A decision on the application is expected in November.