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Community campaigners are being given a chance to buy a fire-damaged York pub which has stood empty for years. Developer Tri-Core, which owns The Jubilee on Balfour Street, and which has applied several times for permission to convert all or part of the building into flats, has now invited the Jubilee Community Pub group to make an offer for the building. The move comes after Tri-Core’s latest bid to get planning permission was rejected last month. The proposals would have seen the top floor and part of the first floor of the pub turned into three flats, with the ground floor left as a pub. There would also have been a function room on part of the first floor.
Firefighters at The Jubilee in Balfour Street last month. PLANNERS have rejected the latest bid to convert part of an abandoned York pub into flats - overruling their own planning officers in the process. A planning case officer had recommended that developer Tri-Core should be allowed to convert the upper floors of The Jubilee on Balfour Street into three flats. The proposals would have left the ground floor as a pub, with a function room on part of the first floor. But despite the recommendation, The Press understands that planners voted 10-1 last week to reject the scheme. Campaigners who want to turn the whole building into a community pub say they are over the moon at the decision.
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