An award-winning Newcastle micropub is bidding to open a sister venue in Heaton.
The Town Mouse Ale House, which has been a big hit with beer fans since opening in the city centre in 2017, wants to expand its operation to a new site on Heaton Road. City councillors were told at a hearing on Tuesday that the venture would add to the “vibrancy and quality” of establishments opening up around Heaton.
The plan has reignited concerns from one objector that an influx of bars risks creating a new “drinking strip” likened to Jesmond’s Osborne Road. However, a local councillor has hit back at those claims and branded them “rather silly hyperbole”.
