Pub chain Antic is set to open two new watering holes around Bromley and Penge if applications are approved.

The company, which has a history of turning troubled boozers around, is also known for snapping up historic buildings and incorporating their history into the new design.

Previously Deptford’s The Job Centre, the Woolwich Equitable and the Eltham GPO have all been rescued from their former lives as a post office, building society, and job centre.

Former haberdashers C & V Trading, along Penge High Street, is the latest site the chain have set their sights on.

Disused for a number of years, it could undergo a conversion and refurbishment if proposals are approved by Bromley Council.

Plans include turning the downstairs of the two storey building into a bar / cafe, serving bakery goods, coffee, lunch and a wine bar during the day.

This would turn into a ‘intimate’ bar after dark.

MORE TOP STORIES The first floor would be turned into a restaurant with its own bar, providing a range of foods including pizza and pasta among suggestions.

It is hoped this will allow the floors to offer ‘different and distinctive’ food.

Finally, a roof terrace overlooking the back of the building will be open until 9pm.

A function space could also host events such as a pop-up cinema.

Grade II listed building the Royal Bell hotel is also set to undergo the Antic treatment.

The site, along Bromley High Street, has been empty for many years with previously unsuccessful talks to turn it into a Chinese restaurant.

The chain has agreed terms to take it over, describing the venture as: “A hugely exciting development that will enable this lovely old pub to be brought back into public use.”

Not their first foray into Bromley, Antic also runs the Goldsmiths Arms along Croydon Road in Penge, the Railway in Kirkdale near Sydenham and The Railway Tavern near Bromley north station. 

To view the application use reference: 15/01951/FULL3

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