Seen a pub for sale that would make a great house....

[buzzer]

And it's only £275k freehold.... Where's the catch?

[stainless_steve]

Change of use?

[Magog]

stainless_steve said:

Change of use?

Easily solved...

[Simpo Two]

Last pub I saw for sale had VAT on it - bit of a dealbreaker.

[buzzer]

Even with VAT it's still cheap....

[Martin Keene]

There probably isn't.

A friend of my parents bought an old pub and converted it to a nice house, and to top it off, built a pair of semis on the car park.

[Slagathore]

How does the planning work?

Don't you have to show that there is no interest to have it back as a pub, then they'll grant the change of use?

[davepoth]

to get the change of use you'd have to prove it wasn't being used. Easy enough if you really want to.

[netherfield]

Over the last ten years,three pubs within the area have been converted to houses,trouble is they still look like pubs no matter what is done to them.

[hornetrider]

netherfield said:

Over the last ten years,three pubs within the area have been converted to houses,trouble is they still look like pubs no matter what is done to them.

And this is a bad thing how?!

[Flintstone]

hornetrider said:

netherfield said:

Over the last ten years,three pubs within the area have been converted to houses,trouble is they still look like pubs no matter what is done to them.

And this is a bad thing how?!

[NDT]

davepoth said:

to get the change of use you'd have to prove it wasn't being used. Easy enough if you really want to.

There was a pub near us in Bedfordshire that someone tried to change the use of. Nightmare.
It was in a tiny little village that already had another pub, but a load of supposed customers (mostly from another village) raised a hell of a fuss about it.
Of course if they'd been spending enough cash in there in the first place the pub wouldn't have closed...

In the end the poor sod who'd bought it gave in as the council wouldn't let them change the use. It's now a curry house with a bar.

[Grandad Gaz]

This one's even cheaper!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[bigweb]

Flintstone said:

hornetrider said:

netherfield said:

Over the last ten years,three pubs within the area have been converted to houses,trouble is they still look like pubs no matter what is done to them.

And this is a bad thing how?!

What a random place to post that! I dont live far from this its in Chinatown Liverpool. The Picture is a Banksy I think.

[bimsb6]

NDT said:

davepoth said:

to get the change of use you'd have to prove it wasn't being used. Easy enough if you really want to.

There was a pub near us in Bedfordshire that someone tried to change the use of. Nightmare.
It was in a tiny little village that already had another pub, but a load of supposed customers (mostly from another village) raised a hell of a fuss about it.
Of course if they'd been spending enough cash in there in the first place the pub wouldn't have closed...

In the end the poor sod who'd bought it gave in as the council wouldn't let them change the use. It's now a curry house with a bar.

that would be the drovers in steppingley then ?

[Victor McDade]

Magog said:

stainless_steve said:

Change of use?

Easily solved...

Not that I'd ever be brave enough (or maybe foolish is more appropriate) to do it but what would actually happen if a pub was burnt down. Can you then build anything on the land (within reason) or would you still have to go through the 'change of use' process?

[Simpo Two]

Victor McDade said:

Not that I'd ever be brave enough (or maybe foolish is more appropriate) to do it but what would actually happen if a pub was burnt down. Can you then build anything on the land (within reason) or would you still have to go through the 'change of use' process?

I suspect it is the site and not the building that has the use.

[jas xjr]

make an appointment with the planners and talk to them informally. they will usually give you a good idea as to what can be done, before you buy

[Ali_D]

I understand that one of the problems after you have the change of use is that as its now a 'new' dwelling it needs to conform to all the latest building regs which especially around the insulation can be quite expensive in an older property.

This is what I was told when I was looking at a pub to convert, but I can't remember who by so don't know whether in anyway correct or not!

[CO2000]

Martin Keene said:

There probably isn't.

A friend of my parents bought an old pub and converted it to a nice house, and to top it off, built a pair of semis on the car park.

We looked at doing this a few years ago (even with converting the car park to housing) but I was worried about a revolt etc by the locals (only pub in the village)