Progress is being made to redevelop a Suffolk town's pub to provide apartments and semi-detached homes.

The sign has been removed from outside the Volunteer Inn in Leiston, which closed in 2020 having had previous closures in October 2014 and September 2016.

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The property is now being redeveloped by Brightwell Ventures Ltd to provide two one-bedroom apartments, one two-bedroom apartment and two one-bedroom semi-detached homes.

The five-bedroom premises in Haylings Road used to be a long-standing pub that included a u-shaped bar area which could seat 60 people, as well as a pool table.

There was also a basement cellar, commercial kitchen and store room, while outside there was a patio for customers as well as a number of outbuildings.

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The redevelopment of the pub was approved by East Suffolk Council in July.

In supporting the redevelopment, the applicant's agent Graham Bloomfield, of estate agents Sequence UK, said: "This full planning application looks to secure planning permission for the delivery of five new one and two-bedroom properties within a highly sustainable location in the town of Leiston, bringing a brownfield site back into effective and efficient use."

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