Work on £750k pub plan kicks off

A £750,000 project has started to breathe new life into the site of a Kidderminster pub which was once a haunt for Led Zeppelin.

Work has started to clear 4ft-high weeds which had swamped the site of the former Green Man and Still pub in Oxford Street.

A three-storey building will be built, housing a shop on the ground floor and six flats above.

The work was being done by firm Kingstone, and workers said they had been told it was a previous haunt of Led Zeppelin.

The Green Man and Still closed and demolished 15 years ago. The site has now been bought by Sutton Coldfield-based Waterloo Housing.

The developers are Kaneal, based in Stafford.

Spokesman Gavin Hewett said: "The site was in a bad state as there were a lot of overgrown weeds."