The Old Spotted Dog, in Upton Lane, is the subject of an application to Newham Council by Highpride Properties Ltd.
In May 2020, the council approved a planning application from Highpride Properties Ltd proposing to restore the pub and build a 68-bedroom hotel with a bar, restaurant, lounge and garden.
Despite receiving approval, no works were carried out.
On November 21 2024, an application for the “restoration and re-use” of the pub as well as the construction of new homes was submitted by the same company with multiple supporting documents being added throughout January and February this year.
In full, it proposes the “restoration and re-use of listed public house; erection of two new buildings (blocks A & B) of three and four storeys respectively comprising a mix of residential and serviced apartments; together with hard/soft landscaping and amenity areas”.
It added: “This current proposal seeks to restore the heritage asset as a public house for the whole building together with refurbished historical elements and replaces the previously proposed hotel with residential use for most of the new buildings on the site.”
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The pub is a grade II listed building dating back to the mid 15th century and is cited as having been Henry VIII’s hunting lodge.
It closed down in 2004 and has been abandoned since.
According to the full planning document, the building has been squatted and vandalised on several occasions and the theft of metal from the roof has “severely exacerbated the damage”.
The document said: “The proposed development would demolish poor quality 20th century elements from the public house allowing the Tudor, and Victorian /Edwardian elements of the public house to be revealed.
“Internally, proposed changes are similarly focused upon the removal of some 1960s and 1980s additions, therefore achieving the restoration and preservation of the building’s inherent significance as a heritage asset.”
The demolition would make space for a “bar, dining room, lounge/function rooms, roof terrace and erection of two new buildings”, according to the documents.
The two new buildings would hold 22 new homes.
Ian Hopwood of Synthesis Architecture is the agent of this application.
The Recorder was unable to reach Highpride Properties Ltd and Synthesis Architecture for comment.
