Sign up to the MyStockport newsletter to keep up with all the top stories A much-loved award winning pub is to be flattened after planners signed off its demolition with ‘a heavy heart’.
The Railway, in Portwood, will be knocked down after Stockport council’ s planning committee reluctantly approved proposals for a new retail unit.
Developer Morbaine’s proposals for a new store on Great Portwood Street also involve bulldozing Carpetright’s current premises. READ MORE: It means The Railway - which was named CAMRA's pub of the year in 2007 - will make way for a retail unit providing 1472 sq m of floorspace.
While no end-user is confirmed, papers say it will provide 15 full-time and 17 part-time jobs. Vehicle access to the site will be from
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