Emergency crews tackle fire at former public house boarded up for years
Firefighters have doused flames and smoke at a former Stafford town centre public house.
Crews were called to the boarded up Tavern building in Greengate Street on Tuesday evening (June 10).
It has been vacant for many years despite developers' efforts to fix it up.
Four years ago plans to transform it into housing and a restaurant were thrown out by Stafford Borough Council on grounds it would cause "undue harm to the amenity” of residents living in nearby flats at The Mills on Mill Bank.
Denyse Willock posted on Facebook page Stafford Town Awareness Group: "It was a total mess inside with the cellar constantly flooding. I looked at it 10 years ago and it would have taken between 30,000-40,000 to sort it then."
