An application to Birmingham City Council planning department to build 5 new houses off Tessall Lane in Northfield is NOT linked to a local restaurant housed in a listed building.
An application has been submitted to build 5 detached / semi-detached homes, with their own access road, behind the old King George V pub (now King Khan’s Bar and Restaurant) at the corner of Tessall Lane and Bristol Road South in Longbridge.
The planning application notice, posted close to the site, mentions the Grade II Listed former pub (formerly the Emerald Chinese restaurant) due to its proximity to the site.
However, the land that is proposed to be developed is currently used as a scrap / breakers yard, and has been on the site for 20 years.
The opening of the King Khan restaurant in 2014 was greeted with mixed reactions from the local community, when the new owner and members of the King George V Bowling Club failed to reach an agreement on the club’s tenancy, forcing them to leave the green they had used behind the building since 1937.
Recent images sent by members of the club show the bowling green as it is today.
To view and comment on the planning application, visit Birmingham City Council’s Planning Online pages, application number 2016/05184/PA
