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Search the Public Notice PortalDemolition crews have started work on the Three Crowns pub in Oldham town centre.
Barriers and warning signs have been in place since at least March, according to images shared on social media, but now demolition excavators have been spotted working on the site.
The original name for the building was the One and Three, named after the building’s address on 1-3 Manchester Road.
The pub was renamed the Three Crowns after a neighbouring pub, which was demolished in 1974 to make way for the construction of Oldham Magistrates Court.
The once popular pub was bought by the council and taken over in 2017 by Oldham Foodbank, which is run by the Trussell Trust.
Due to increasing demand for the service, Oldham Foodbank relocated again in 2020 to warehouse premises on Vulcan Street, leaving the pub empty again.
Over the years, visible signs of dereliction on the black-and-white Tudor-style building, such as broken windows, have appeared .
What’s happening with the site?
Last year, plans to transform the site were submitted and approved as part of the wide-scale regeneration of the town centre.
Under these plans, the neighbouring Manchester Chambers building, which was built in 1900, will be retained and the later additions to the site and the Three Crowns are to be pulled down.
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The site will be redeveloped into commercial and learning space, according to the planning documents.
While the Three Crowns is also a historic building, having been built pre-1891, the heritage impact statement submitted as part of the application describes it as only having “some low level of local historic interest” and “very low level of architectural interest, caused by the degree of alteration and the addition of detracting external elements”.
The statement added: “As such, it is not considered to be of a level of interest that would give it the status of a potential non-designated heritage asset. The modern additions are of no heritage significance and are detracting.”
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