Plans have emerged for a two-floor bar in the former KFC restaurant in Newcastle’s Bigg Market.
Dawson Enterprises Ltd has put forward a licence application for a venue called Geordie Racer, at the corner plot which has been empty for some time. The company, registered in Newcastle, wants to open the new business in the ground floor and basement at the corner of Grainger Street and the Bigg Market, while proposing plans for an al fresco dining area and garden outside.
The plans could see a venue open up from 9am to 2am every day, while also becoming the latest business to add to regeneration plans in the Bigg Market, which has been subject to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF). Restoration works which have been given grants have so far been carried out at Swarley’s, Pumphreys, Meat:Stack; the Victorian men’s toilet building that is now WC Newcastle wine bar; Koh-I Noor; CosyJoes, Kafeneon and Balmbra’s.
