A pub that closed down four years ago, and local residents feared would be lost to developers, is now on course to reopen before Christmas this year - after two years of delays.
The Cross Hands pub in South Bristol was shut down in 2019 by brewery Greene King and was boarded up for years, before a new development company took on the project, and decided that rather than convert it to flats or develop it for housing, they would refurbish it as a pub, guest house and events venue.
Local firm The Wring Group applied for planning permission to turn the skittle alley into a function room and build a second storey bed and breakfast rooms above - bringing the pub back to its Victorian roots as a coaching inn on the main road into Bristol from Somerset.
