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Plans have emerged to open some other business on the site of a once-booming Stockton pub.
Work is already underway to demolish the deserted Mile House into a Starbucks self-service service.
And the developers also need to convert the space of the pub house, where the owner lived, into a beauty salon.
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A plan-making request claims the screen will “offer socio-economic benefits” while creating jobs.
This is the latest step in a long saga of plans at the Durham Road site.
Last year, however, the cafe chain was granted permission to set up shop on the site of the alcohol barricade, following an appeal to the Town Planning Inspectorate.
First, Stockton’s board rejected the £2. 4 million site redesign and called the initial plans “overdevelopment”.
Subsequent plans were also rejected amid traffic fears, developer Cliff Court won the appeal and the board was ordered to pay the fees.
Now, the company submitted the application to replace the use of the house space and added: “After replacing the use of public space by the use of advertising, the apartment is no longer mandatory and is not hot for the market given the land uses on the ground.
“Replacement in use would provide a new service to the network in a sustainable location, while offering a new source of employment. “
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