The pub had been derelict for a decade and has since been demolished
Student housing and shops will be built where a Nottingham pub stood derelict for years. The Douglas Bar in Alfreton Road was recently demolished, more than ten years after it closed.
The Douglas Bar, originally known as the Windmill, was built in the 1960s and has undergone several name changes since then. When permission was given for demolition in 2021, planners at Nottingham City Council were told it had been closed for at least a decade and didn’t have a viable future as a pub.
“The development has the potential to draw more students out of private housing into purpose-built stock, freeing up housing for the local community and reducing pressure on the market,” they say. “The council has recognised that parts of the city have become imbalanced by the number of homes now in use as HMOs .
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