An old pub and hotel which once hosted famous faces from the world of theatre and was a popular haunt among football fans at Vetch Field games looks poised to become flats.
Swansea Council has received a planning application asking for permission to transform the old Singleton Hotel, which has been closed for more than four years, into nine flats and a commercial unit. Jordan Evans, of Singleton Swansea Ltd is behind the bid to transform the old building, which closed its doors for good on Tuesday, March 27, 2019.
The SIngleton Hotel once had a relationship with the nearby The Grand Theatre, at Singleton Street, and a lot of the performers who took to the stage there would stay at the hotel including Bob Monkhouse, Windsor Davies and Joe Pasquale. Get Swansea stories straight to your inbox with our newsletter.
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And it was also once extremely popular with Swansea City football club fans, who flocked there before and after matches at the nearby Vetch Field, where the side played their home games until 2005, before moving to the Liberty Stadium. The pub had been very popular for its live music for generations, and had also operated as a seven-bedroom hotel.
It is not the only well-known former pub to be the subject of transformation plans in Swansea at the moment. South Property Development want to turn the "tired" old White Swan public house on High Street into three stories of residential apartments. You can read more about that by clicking here.
A planning statement supporting the application to transform the Singleton Hotel reads: "It will bring a vacant commercial building back into beneficial use and provide a viable alternative uses for the building which will provide much needed good quality affordable residential accommodation in Swansea city centre and an attractive commercial ground floor use.
"The resultant development will increase footfall to the adjacent city centre which will help sustain its retail function and help improve the vitality and viability of the city centre as the primary leisure and retail destination. The scheme will retain the traditional features and help bring this vacant building back into use. The regeneration of the site at a prominent corner location will enhance the visual amenities of the area." Swansea Council's planning department will now consider the application.
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