Signs to be stripped from popular Northampton pub as planning permission submitted for flats

The Romany pub, which takes is name from the gypsies who used to camp along Kingsley Road on race days, is being turned into flats.

A former family pub in Northampton, which never reopened after the first national lockdown, is being turned into 11 new flats.

A planning application has been submitted to the Guildhall on behalf of Wellington Pub Company to turn the main pub building into ten one-bedroom and studio flats with a communal garden.

In the last decade, the car park and the existing garage on the north-east end of the site have been used as a hand-car wash but it is also proposed the garage is to be turned into an eleventh flat after the tenant vacated approximately 16 months ago.

Selena and Rob were been told by the pub's operators to leave The Romany after 10 years

Last orders was called for Selena Mullen and her partner Rob Okeefe who had run The Romany in Trinity Avenue for 10 years after the pubs temporary lease lapsed in June.

The couple had already started to make preparations to open again after the first national lockdown had ended on July 4 but, instead, the pair and their three sons were instead told to pack away a decade's worth of memories in the pub and their flat upstairs after their operators said they were closing the local down.

The Romany being turned into flats is not an isolated case and locally follows the trend of King David, Rose & Claret, The Cuckoos Nest, The Silver Cornet and The Tanners all being turned into residential properties.