The owner of a former riverside pub near Peterborough has been granted permission to convert it into a family home.

Quaffins Ltd applied to Peterborough City Council for planning permission in December 2024 to change the use of the Dog In A Doublet pub on North Bank in Thorney.

The once-popular pub, which featured on Channel 4's Four in a Bed, was previously run by former MasterChef contestant John McGinn but has remained vacant since 2023.

Plans for the building, which were approved by city council planners on October 21 this year, will see the empty property transformed into a private five-bedroom home.

According to planning documents, the scale of the building will be reduced through demolition, with the rear demolition work taking the building back to what it was like before it w

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