Running costs are 'horrendous'
Plans for new accommodation could help to save a struggling inner-city pub. Proposals to turn a function room and first floor residential flat above the Plough Inn, in Radford, into a house of multiple occupation have been submitted to Nottingham City Council.
The ground floor is set to remain the same and carry on trading as a pub. Nottingham Brewery boss and former Plough Inn owner Philip Darby said: "As far as the pub goes it's a lifeline. If there's rent coming in from upstairs it will make the pub viable against what it is now, which is struggling like anything to make ends meet. I'm just hoping it's sooner rather than later.
Mr Darby, the brewery's managing director, said: "At the moment the pub has a function room and an old manager's flat. That's all going to be developed. That's the first move, then we'd look to moving the brewery. In a perfect world that would happen seamlessly one after the other but if the flats don't get done until the summer, then we won't be moving the brewery until 2024.
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