A Wetherspoons branch in Stoke-on-Trent has applied for permission to install a replacement shopfront and build new staff facilities.

The Reginald Mitchell, in Hanley, also wants to install accessible entrance doors at the front of pub.

This week, JD Wetherspoon PLC applied for planning permission to "form new staff facilities within the existing staff areas, replacing part of the shopfront on Parliament Row and forming a new internal opening to allow the doors to be used as an accessible entrance."

A Heritage Statement, submitted as the building is Grade-II listed, says: "This proposal has two aims: to provide staff members with appropriate rest, changing and toilet facilities which are separate to those available to customers; and to move the accessible entrance to the pub to be next to the main entrance instead of at the back of the building.

The building, in Hanley town centre, is Grade-II listed (Google).

"The new layout will improve the functionality of the building for both staff and customers.

"It provides a dedicated changing room, a locker room and a WC for the male staff members and the female staff members, greatly improving upon the single staff WC which is currently available, and allows wheelchair-using customers to enter the pub at the main entrance rather than round the back."

A decision is expected regarding these plans in the coming months; the full planning application can be viewed here.

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