Norwich will get a brand new pub after metropolis councillors gave the go-ahead for it to open within the metropolis’s Golden Triangle.
The Fat Cat Brewery Tap has been granted permission for the micro pub within the former Oliver’s Bar, in Unthank Road.
Norwich City Council’s planning committee agreed to a change of use of the building to a pub on Thursday (November 9) by six votes to 5.
There had been six objections to the proposal, with individuals involved about noise, anti-social behaviour and parking shortages.
Jake Amies, who lives close by, stated the world already has pubs reminiscent of Eaton Cottage, the Warwick Arms and William and Florence close by.
He stated: “I don’t think Unthank Road needs more pubs really. We could do with a dentists.”
Mr Amies stated neighbours can be disturbed by the noise of drinkers standing on the road to smoke or whereas ready for buses or taxis to get home.
There have been 13 letters of help lodged with the council, together with statements that it will create jobs and provide “something unique” in Unthank Road.
Mark White (Image: Archant 2021)
Mark White, proprietor of the Brewery Tap, stated it will be a smaller ‘micro’ model of his current pub in Lawson Road.
He stated: “We are very aware of where it is positioned. This will be a very different venue for the area.”
He stated he had observe report of working a pub and wished to have a “positive impact” on the world.
The pub can be allowed to open from midday till midnight Monday to Thursday, till 1am on Friday and Saturdays and till 11.30pm on Sundays.
A situation was agreed that the out of doors seating space have to be cleared of shoppers by 11pm every day.
The new pub would create two new full-time jobs and three part-time positions.
City Hall’s licensing committee final month accredited a sequence of modifications to the licence Fat Cat Brewery Tap had inherited from Oliver’s Bar, which shut in February.
That included putting limits on how many individuals can use the venue.
The building was beforehand an Amnesty bookshop and, from the Seventies till 2016, it was home to a bakery.
