Plans to close one of the last nightclubs in Newquay for good have been revealed.
The Eden Bar Club, on Beach Road, could be turned into a unit including a restaurant and cafe area as well as retail space.
A planning application for alternations and change of use has been submitted to Cornwall Council by Keith Wotton Architectural Services on behalf of the owner, Memet Aldemir.
According to the application, the layout would not change, the access would be improved, the grey cladding would be removed and there would be more windows.
The plans read: “The objective is to provide retail facilities in the previously licenced nightclub and to alter the entrance to provide wheelchair and pushchair access and to introduce windows to the elevation fronting Beach Road.
“The site lies within the centre of Newquay so it is considered this development will have no negative impact on neighbours, travel patterns, historic features or regeneration of the area.
“It would appear that Newquay is now attracting more family-oriented visitors leading to a downturn in the nightclub business and therefore attracting more day-time trade so retail use may now be more appropriate.”
The project is said to also be expected to provide four full-time jobs.
The application is due to be considered by Cornwall Council by Monday, May 20.
In April of last year the Eden Bar had its licence revoked following “serious concerns” raised by the police over the way it was run.
This was as a result of a series of incidents at the club, including one in August of the previous year for which Mr Aldemir, 41, pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive, insulting words and behaviour with intent to cause fear and provoke violence.
In October of last year an application was submitted by a York-based man named Michael Wilson, on behalf of Mr Aldemir, to convert the club into five flats and two retail units.
According to the applicant, the objective was to provide good quality flat and retail accommodation within the existing shell, and to provide a penthouse flat at existing roof level to make good use of the available sea views down Beach Road and Gover Lane.
The layout would have formed two retail units and entrance to the flats at lower ground floor level, while four single-bedroom flats would have been accommodated at ground and first-floor level, with the two-bedroom penthouse flat positioned at existing roof level.
The plans were eventually refused.
In its decision notice, Cornwall Council said: “The increased height of the proposed building, such that it protrudes above the adjacent buildings and the inclusion of significant areas of balconies and fenestration, particularly on the Gover Lane elevation, is considered to amount to over-development of the site which is out of scale with the street scene and in an appearance which jars with the predominant character of the surrounding built form, resulting in harm to both the character and appearance of the locality.
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“The proposed residential units have been designed with large windows and balconies opening onto two of the busiest night-time economy streets in Newquay. It is considered that the residential amenities of the occupiers of such units could suffer, particularly from excessive noise disturbance.”
Now the club has been put on the market for £450,000.
