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Search the Public Notice PortalPLANS are being served up to convert a Cowdenbeath pub into flats.
If approved, the proposals from City Hotels Ltd will see the Junction Pub in Perth Road change its use to form four flats.
A planning statement said permission was being sought to create four flats – one two-bedroom and three one-bedroom – in the ground floor of the pub.
The first floor of the building already includes four flats which are rented out.
As part of the plans, an existing garage/lock up would also be demolished and pedestrian access arrangements improved.
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Agents for the applicants said the property had been bought by the applicants in 2019 with a view to leasing it out.
The statement to Fife Council explained: "The sitting tenant took over but sadly the Covid Pandemic hit the business like many others and they were forced to call it a day in January 2023.
"Prior to this the applicants subsidised them with a 100 per cent rent discount for some time leading up to the closure."
A flat tenant with "excellent experience" in the licence trade then took over the premises while a search continued for a more permanent tenant.
"The business was marketed confidentially as is the case with many licence trade premises," continued the planning statement. "Due to the current trend in the industry there has been little to zero interest.
"Small community pubs remote from High Street locations are experiencing hard times with no short term improvement in site the outlook is bleak and the current tenant will be closing the doors on January 25, 2025."
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