PLANS to convert a pub on the edge of the town centre into flats has been given the green light by planning bosses.
The Fitzwilliam Arms, on the junction of Sackville Street and Fitzwilliam Street, will become five flats after the application submitted by Ismail Ghandour, of Hind Property Co Ltd, based in London, was approved by the council.
The pub was built in approximately 1880 with a extension at the back added in 1950s, but it closed in 2005 and is currently boarded up and in a poor state of repair.
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