Planning application made to convert another Nuneaton pub...

[dutchman]

People may soon be living in another Nuneaton pub that has become a victim of the decline in the licensed trade.

Planning permission is being sought to convert the King William IV into flats.

A Mr Riyaz Vorajee wants the borough council planners to allow him to change its use from a pub to five self-contained flats.

If he is given the go ahead, the pub will become the latest in succession of licensed premises to be converted.

The latest one is the Boot Inn at Coton which is to be transformed into apartments with more new homes at the rear.

Planning permission is also being sought to demolish the Lord Raglan at Exhall and replace it with a convenience store.

The King William 1V in Coton Road, Nuneaton, has changed hands several times in the last few years.

A succession of licensees have battled to keep it going.

Once known for its entertainment and `sing songs,’ the pub has suffered over the years from changing habits and the redevelopment of the town.

People once walked to their ‘locals’, but that has changed over the years and the pub also found itself ‘marooned’ on a dual carriageway.

The pub recently figured in a book by George Clarke, one of its former landlords.

He was licensee in the 1930s and his son converted his handwritten memoirs into a book.

The book chronicles the story of his life in the town, including being trapped underground in the mines, his time as a rent collector and his spell behind the bar at the King William IV.

The book based on his memoirs is called ‘The Old Rebel - A Life In Nuneaton 1885-1960.’