Plans to open a new pub in the centre of Cardiff have taken a major step forward. Cardiff Council has approved an application to sell alcohol at a building formerly occupied by a Chinese restaurant on Churchill Way following a meeting of the authority's licensing committee on Wednesday, April 12. The approval will see the former Star Chinese Restaurant turned into a new pub called the Churchill Arms.
Residents living nearby wrote to the council to express their concern about another licensed premises opening on Churchill Way. The applicant, Group LH Ltd, already owns a number of premises on Churchill Way including Pulse nightclub. One resident wrote to the council saying: "The last thing residents want is yet another bar in the close vicinity. This company already has three other licensed premises in this road and have blighted the area for years."
Cardiff Council ward member for Cathays, Councillor Norma Mackie, said: "While Churchill Way has a mixture or retail, offices and licensed premises it also has a number of residents and a hotel. There are 280 residential flats at Landmark Place, with residents that include elderly people and families with children and a Premier Inn directly opposite the proposed new premises and there are also flats adjacent to the premises.
