Wiltshire Council has approved a planning application that will see a three-bedroom home built in a pub's car park.

The Crown and Anchor is a pub situated on the east side of Ramsbury, a village in the northeast of Wiltshire.

An application submitted in June 2023 proposed constructing a detached, “chalet bungalow style” home on the far side of the pub’s car park, with the latest plans suggesting the pub garden would be used for further parking.

Dozens of comments were left on the application by local residents objecting to the plans.  

One wrote: “This application further undermines the possibility of The Crown and Anchor continuing as a pub.

“A pub needs a car park and garden, not houses built in the outside space.”

Ramsbury and Axford Parish Council planning committee commented that it had seen four revised layouts for the application, none of which had “taken into account the future viability of the Crown and Anchor as a public house.”

Meanwhile, the application had argued: “By developing the area, it would actually improve the asset as there has been a few abandoned vehicles on the car park and having a modest family dwelling on the site would see the asset improve from a largely disused car park.”