The Liverpool Arms has no viable future as a business, an application by the brewery states.

Heron and Brearley has submitted an application (20/00967/C) to change the pub into a private residence.

In its proposal, H&B said that since a similar application was rejected on appeal last year, there have been no offers to take on the business.

The pub is for sale with Black Grace Cowley, listed for £310,000. The estate agent’s website said H&B would sell without the covenant barring it from being used as a licensed premises for £450,000.

As well as the declining state of the building, H&B said the public house has no future as a business and would require investment in order to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act because of its layout, entrance size and toilets not being on the ground floor.

The company said the Liverpool Arms is ’detached from the community it’s supposed to be serving’ and ’the victim of a UK-wide pattern of declining pub use’.