Plans to turn an old plumbing shop in Crystal Palace into a pub have been resubmitted after a first application drew nearly 50 objections. 

London pub chain Antic wants to open a new pub at 58-60 Westow Hill – It already has two pubs in the same road.

The chain runs Walker Briggs and Westow House in the Crystal Palace triangle.

A planning application was submitted to Croydon Council on December 15.

It comes two months after the company withdrew the same plans for the former Plumbase store.

The previous application, which was submitted back in March, attracted 49 public objections and 12 comments in support.

Antic founder, Anthony Thomas, says these were withdrawn as he could not make a planning committee meeting where the plans were set to be discussed.

“The plans are more or less the same,” he said.

“It was going to a public committee and I could not make it – Given the amount of objections I wanted to be there.”

Public consultation on the most recent plans is still open and has received seven supporting comments and five objections.

Mr Thomas said the company had tried to engage with people in the area including people living in the flats above the would-be pub.

He added that as part of the development Antic would sound proof the flats above the former shop.

If approved the pub would be open from 9am daily as a cafe, restaurant ‘morphing’ into a bar in the evening.

From Thursday-Saturday it would close at 12.30am and be open until 11pm on other days.

It adds that smokers out on the pavement will be ‘limited in number’ and not allowed to take drinks outside.

Antic wants to call the new pub Cambridge Coopers, a nod to the name of a shop that was on the site in 1965 and The Cambridge, a pub in Westow Hill that closed down seven years ago.

Mr Thomas added: “I think it will be great for the already flourishing high street.

“It is a very attractive building but it has seen better years.”

In December the pub chain faced criticism for reportedly not paying staff the London Living Wage.

Unite the Union staged a protest outside Antic’s head office Christmas Party on December 19 in East Ham.

At the time Unite regional officer Dave Turnbull called on the chain to increase the wages of its staff.

But Mr Thomas defended the minimum wage pay of staff starting out in Antic’s pubs.

“Anyone that comes into our industry generally starts out on minimum wage but they can go up quite quickly,” he said.

“The great thing about our industry is that we take anyone regardless of their qualifications.”

If the plans are approved he said that he hopes the pub would be ready to open by the end of summer.

Public consultation on the plans closes on January 19 and a decision is expected by February 9.