Councillors have voted unanimously to try to prevent a historic pub in Timperley from being bulldozed. A company wants to demolish the now derelict Pelican Inn and the adjoining Altrincham Lodge hotel on Manchester Road and replace them with a care home and apartment block.
The Greene King pub closed in July 2020 and never reopened. The time span for New Care (Altrincham) Ltd's application to be considered by Trafford planning and development committee lapsed recently because of an administrative backlog.
This has prompted the company to appeal against the authority's "non-determination" of the application and could now be decided by a government planning inspector. Councillors on the committee last night (Thursday, June 9) voted unanimously they would've refused the application had they been able to determine it.
