{"id":733801,"date":"2026-08-10T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733801\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:54:09","slug":"pub-in-rotherham-to-become-convenience-store-despite-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733801\/","title":{"rendered":"Pub in Rotherham to become convenience store despite backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A council has given the go-ahead for an empty pub to be turned into a convenience store, despite objections by residents.<\/p>\n

The Sportsman on Fitzwilliam Street in Swinton, Rotherham, has been vacant since it closed during the Covid pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n

The application was approved by Rotherham Council’s planning board on Thursday, external<\/a>, despite there being 50 letters of objection, as well as a petition with 154 signatures.<\/p>\n

There were concerns over increased delivery traffic, a lack of parking and increased risks to pedestrians from traffic as the building is on a junction<\/p>\n

Others had concerns that another shop could result in anti-social behaviour, littering and crime.<\/p>\n

The shop will only be open to customers between 07:00 BST and 22:00 Mondays to Saturdays, and 07:00-21:00 on Sundays.<\/p>\n

No deliveries for the shop are to be received outside the hours of 08:00 and 21:00 Mondays to Saturdays, and 09:00 and 21:00 on Sundays.<\/p>\n

The car park on site will only be for residential and staff use, not for customer use.<\/p>\n

Several residents attended the meeting to object to the plans, the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

One resident said: “I believe this particular shop is neither needed or wanted in this area. I think this has been backed up by the objections that you’ve received.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know how the council actually sees it as a justified need within the area when you’ve had such a large amount of objections to it.<\/p>\n

“I believe that it would cause nuisance to the area with the hours, the noise, the littering.”<\/p>\n

Another resident said that the building should be redeveloped into residential homes “meeting the increasing need for affordable accommodation in the area.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council has given the go-ahead for an empty pub to be turned into a convenience store, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}