White Hart, Merton

UPDATE OCTOBER 2024. Now demolished.

UPDATE APRIL 2023. Planning approval for demolition and new building - hall of residence and Class E (commercial) at ground floor level. No provision for a replacement pub.

UPDATE FEBRUARY 2023. Planning application for building to accommodate 271 students and a cafe submitted. Comments by 15 March. Application number 23/P0329.

https://planning.merton.gov.uk/Northgate/PlanningExplorerAA/GeneralSearch.aspx

UPDATE AUGUST 2022. Latest proposal for a student village for 293 students plus a shop. To be considered by Counci's Design Review Panel on 30 August.

UPDATE AUGUST 2022.Agent's board now simply says 'sold'.

UPDATE JULY 2021. Planning application for redevelopment of site submitted- 21/P2565. Includes two commercial units but not specifically for pub use. (Estate agents' board still says 'sold, subject to contract.)

UPDATE JUNE 2021. Consultation by Hibernian Capital intending to submit planning application mid-June. See

https://www.whitehartkingstonroad.co.uk/

UPDATE JUNE 2020. Agent's board still as below. The anticipated planning application to demolish the pub and build residential accommodation and shops on the site still to be submitted.

Agent's board outside pub says 'sold, subject to contract' (Dec 2019).

Site (including other properties) offered for sale for potential development including two retail units. Closing date for offers 31 October 2019.

https://www.as-r.co.uk/commercial/commercial-property/kingston-road-london/29089663/

Signage removed November 2018.

Caretakers occupy the secured building.

Development proposals do not include a pub - see

http://www.marcus-beale.com/projects/white-hart/

A pub has been on the site, next to the level crossing, since at least 1700; the current building dates from 1958 and was named Bodhran Barneys from 1996 to 2000.

Latterly it often closed Friday and Saturday evenings for private bookings; the modern interior felt more like a cocktail bar than a community pub.