A Rotherham-based interiors company is hoping to fit out its new office building with a micro pub.
RWS Plastering & Drylining Ltd took on an empty former DIY retail store on Effingham Street in 2023, converting it into a modern office with a showroom shop for themselves, and at the same creating new commercial units.
A change of use application has been made relating to the whole building so that it can operate as three units.
A hairdressers has taken one unit with a café, run by enterprising owners associated with RWS, also taking space. The refit has uncovered space within the cellar of the building and the plan is to use this as part of a licensed venue.
Ow Do! Café & Bar is currently open and serves breakfasts, lunch and a variety of daily specials.
Operators are also wanting to use the rear of the building, which backs onto the River Don, with outdoor seating in an existing covered area accessed from the café / bar.
A premises licence has already been secured for the supply of alcohol between 12:00 and 23:30.
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Documents submitted with the plans state: "The proposal was to create a new Headquarters to house multiple offices, staff facilities and a meeting room required for the thriving Rotherham based dry lining, plastering and interior design company RWS.
"It also required a professional look including a welcoming, modest showroom front entrance which allowed existing and future clients to visit and experience the quality of the companies [sic] work and products.
"This allowed the use of two further units across the front and also the redundant cellar which was professionally stripped and tanked to make certain the buildings integrity was secured. The central [unit] is occupied by a hair stylist company while the final right-hand unit has a modern, American feel café which is ran by people associated with RWS. The basement is to be use as a micro pub with ample seating for 50.
"The proposed micro pub has also thrilled one of Rotherham’s best restaurants, El Lupo's, which is only a few doors down on Effingham Street. As their seating is at capacity most evenings, their bar area is compact and the concept of having somewhere sophisticated and finished to a high specification with modern facilities to offer their awaiting clientele until their tables are ready is a huge benefit for them."
The council's Environmental Health department has commented on the plans and its Noise Assessment Report, advising that conditions be attached to any planning permission restricting opening hours to 12:00 - 23:00 and for no amplified music or audio other than low level background music shall be played in the outdoor areas as the location is classed as a mixed residential/commercial area.
RWS website
Images: Google Maps
RWS Plastering & Drylining Ltd took on an empty former DIY retail store on Effingham Street in 2023, converting it into a modern office with a showroom shop for themselves, and at the same creating new commercial units.
A change of use application has been made relating to the whole building so that it can operate as three units.
A hairdressers has taken one unit with a café, run by enterprising owners associated with RWS, also taking space. The refit has uncovered space within the cellar of the building and the plan is to use this as part of a licensed venue.
Ow Do! Café & Bar is currently open and serves breakfasts, lunch and a variety of daily specials.
Operators are also wanting to use the rear of the building, which backs onto the River Don, with outdoor seating in an existing covered area accessed from the café / bar.
A premises licence has already been secured for the supply of alcohol between 12:00 and 23:30.
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Documents submitted with the plans state: "The proposal was to create a new Headquarters to house multiple offices, staff facilities and a meeting room required for the thriving Rotherham based dry lining, plastering and interior design company RWS.
"It also required a professional look including a welcoming, modest showroom front entrance which allowed existing and future clients to visit and experience the quality of the companies [sic] work and products.
"This allowed the use of two further units across the front and also the redundant cellar which was professionally stripped and tanked to make certain the buildings integrity was secured. The central [unit] is occupied by a hair stylist company while the final right-hand unit has a modern, American feel café which is ran by people associated with RWS. The basement is to be use as a micro pub with ample seating for 50.
"The proposed micro pub has also thrilled one of Rotherham’s best restaurants, El Lupo's, which is only a few doors down on Effingham Street. As their seating is at capacity most evenings, their bar area is compact and the concept of having somewhere sophisticated and finished to a high specification with modern facilities to offer their awaiting clientele until their tables are ready is a huge benefit for them."
The council's Environmental Health department has commented on the plans and its Noise Assessment Report, advising that conditions be attached to any planning permission restricting opening hours to 12:00 - 23:00 and for no amplified music or audio other than low level background music shall be played in the outdoor areas as the location is classed as a mixed residential/commercial area.
RWS website
Images: Google Maps
The old noise issue(Rotherham)It's a town centre!!!,it should be vibrant and lively,suggest they go on an evening to any other town/city in area.Then we wonder why Rotherham is dead!
ReplyDeleteIt's across from sheltered housing/care home, so yes noise would be an issue.
DeleteWhy not just turn it down,RMBC...you know you want to really!
ReplyDeleteThe premises are opposite residential properties and a care home, so the request to limit outside music levels and the opening hours is more than reasonable.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely!
ReplyDeleteIf it was in Wickersley it would have no chance of getting passed. Hopefully this one will.
ReplyDeleteYeah and town centres all over country are full of flats with people of varying ages including elderly ,yet other towns don't let it stop there night scene,only Rotherham....and I'm a 66year old saying this!
ReplyDeleteEffingham street is hardly the best spot for a 'night scene'. There are plenty of more suitable areas of the town if they want loud music.
DeleteNot everyone of a certain age are old f##ts
ReplyDeleteGood luck to them, that's what I say! I hope the plans are passed, and it will encourage a bit more footfall into this area of town.
ReplyDeleteGive this is on the edge of town in a mostly residential area and directly opposite a care home the limits on outside music are more than fair. Other towns would impose similar conditions if a proposal to open a bar opposite a care home was tabled.
ReplyDeleteThe application has been approved with the hours restricted to 12:00-23:00 & a condition around "No amplified music or audio other than low level background (incidental) music or audio shall be played in the outdoor areas (including the covered outdoor seating area)"
ReplyDeleteYep Tom i think this is fine, I'd support this.
DeleteI wouldn't support it being open to say 2am for the residents.
And for these people saying its town centre, yes but it's not a usual bar area so considerations need to be made.
I too agree that the opening hours are major Tom.
ReplyDeleteGiven the chorus of commentators who normally bemoan any town centre article with cries of "we need more bars" this should be a welcome development for them, and hopefully this will business will be a massive success.
ReplyDeleteSo this development has been approved. How unusual for the opposite of what 'Mr me' has said to be true LOL
ReplyDeleteCan someone explain the above?
ReplyDeleteAfraid not.
ReplyDeleteLOL is used by people who have not yet mastered the art of communicating orally or in writing and is used to indicate that something they have said or are about to say was not or will not be amusing.
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