Fresh plans for former pub in Boston

The proposed new use for the Axe and Cleaver's courtyard.

A fresh bid has been made to turn part of a former pub in Boston into apartments and add more accommodation to the rear of the property.

Plans have been submitted to Boston Borough Council to convert the first floor of The Axe and Cleaver, in West Street, to form two apartments and add five new-build residential dwellings to its courtyard.

The bid has been made by Activ Property Management and follows a similar application last year.

At that time, it requested planning permission to covert the first-floor to form three apartments and to build a three-storey building in the courtyard to create 11 apartments. That submission was withdrawn following discussion with the borough council.

These new plans have been developed in consultation with the council, documents submitted to the authority state.

They comprise a three-bed unit and a two-bed unit on the first-floor of the pub, and four apartments and a two-bed townhouse in a two-storey L-shaped new build in the rear courtyard.

“Activ Property Management intends this proposal to be a development of the highest quality creating accommodation that offers a positive contribution to the Borough,” agents Framework write in their Design and Access statement.