A FORMER landmark pub is up for sale – with planning permission already approved for 16 new homes.

Plans to flatten The Sportsman's Arms, on Warrington Road, and build 16 new affordable homes were approved by the council earlier this year.

The scheme will allow the new three-bedroom homes to be built along with space for car parking.

The pub last operated in 2017 and the building is currently empty.

Now the land has gone on the market.

But it will cost £800,000 to purchase it.

The proposals for 16 affordable homes comprise ten semi‐detached houses, five terraced houses and one detached house following the demolition of the site existing public house site.

Cllr Andy Heaver (IND – Penketh and Cuerdley) said he thinks residential use is a preferred option over a supermarket, which was previously earmarked for the site.

But he told the councillors when the scheme was agreed that the density of the housing is ‘worrying’.

A single point of vehicular access had been proposed from Warrington Road, which re‐uses the existing entrance and exit to and from the site.