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The Globe in Warwick: Heritage Officer Objects to Pub Makeover

The council's conservation officer has objected to work already carried out at The Globe on Theatre Street, joining the town council. Brunning & Price says the changes avoid the historic parts of the listed building. The target decision date is 16 November.

By Alex Harrington 2 min read Source: Warwick District Council planning file
Theatre Street in Warwick on a sunny evening, with brick houses on the right, a large brick building on the left and flats beyond the bend
Theatre Street, Warwick, home of The Globe, August 2020. Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0

Warwick District Council’s own conservation officer has objected to the changes already made at The Globe in Warwick, adding to objections from Warwick Town Council and the district’s heritage forum. Pub company Brunning & Price is asking for permission after the work was done at the Grade II listed pub and hotel on Theatre Street, with a target decision date of 16 November.

On this page
  1. What’s been built
  2. The pub’s case
  3. The objections
  4. What happens next

The council refused an earlier scheme on 26 June, saying it would harm the listed building and the conservation area with no public benefit to outweigh that harm. Warwick Nub News first reported the town council’s objection to the new plans on 12 October, and said the pub had reopened in June after four months closed. The conservation officer’s response was added to the file on 30 October.

What’s been built

Application W/26/1304 and its listed building partner, W/26/1305/LB, cover a single-storey rear extension, a timber pergola, landscaping, changes to the terrace and windows, and inside work including a bigger kitchen, a private dining room, a new fireplace and a flue.

The pub’s case

Brunning & Price’s planning statement says what has been built is smaller than the refused scheme and affects recent extensions and the courtyard, not the historic parts of the building. It says the extension links the pub and hotel better and looks better than the old pergola and felt-roofed extension it replaced, and that the planting slightly improves the conservation area.

The objections

  • The conservation officer is most concerned about The Holloway, the medieval road cut through rock behind the pub. The response says the timber fencing looks like a domestic garden and that the work wrongly makes the road look like part of the pub’s grounds. It also criticises the brick corridor, the pergola, a glazed canopy and a very tall flue on a historic gable. Some inside work, including the new stud walls and the double fireplace, is judged acceptable.
  • Warwick Town Council objects, calling a retrospective application for a historic site “devastating”. It raises the effect on accessibility during the work and asks who owns the land under the rear terrace decking, saying the application form shows it isn’t the applicant.
  • The Conservation Advisory Forum says the retrospective nature of the work should count against the plans because the applicant knew the process.
  • Councillor Jim Sinnott objects, calling the passage a key route for Warwick and saying the ownership of the banking needs to be settled first.

Public comments on the two files are few and split: two objections and two in support. Historic England chose not to give advice.

What happens next

The formal consultation period closed on 16 October and neither application has been decided. The planning file’s target date is 16 November. Nub News reports that a refusal could mean the renovations being removed. An applicant can appeal a refusal to the Planning Inspectorate.

You’ll find The Globe in our Warwick restaurants, cafés and pubs directory.

Alex Harrington