Brewhouse & Kitchen has secured planning permission to convert a JD Wetherspoon’s site in Milton Keynes.
The group has been granted permission to redevelop the David Garrick pub on Savoy Crescent, which is part of the town’s theatre district.
The work will increase the building’s overall licensed areas by more than 2,500 square feet, providing a new mezzanine floor at third-floor level within the atrium that will be used for private functions. The company will also create a balcony and terrace on the third floor.
The site would eventually have space for 260 internal covers and almost 100 external covers.
It is the fourth pub Brewhouse & Kitchen has acquired from JDW, following the package deal to take on the Forest House in Chester, The Bollin Fee in Wilmslow and the Bankers Draft in Bedford last year.
The group will open its 18th site in Cardiff next year.
Co-founder Simon Bunn told MCA earlier this year that the group had not put a limit on its ambitions for further growth, adding: “If you add up the locations where we know B&K could work you’re easily at 50 sites, but that’s not to say that we will definitely end up there.
“As we have got more experienced we have got a lot better at doing deals and now we feel quite comfortable in saying ‘this is what we think this site is worth if we’re going to get a decent return on our investment’ and if the seller doesn’t agree we’ll walk away. There is nowhere that we absolutely need to be.”
