Developer ordered to rebuild demolished Victorian pub ‘brick-by-brick’

A resi developer in north London has been given two years to rebuild a pub it demolished to make way for a new apartment scheme.

Westminster is considering issuing an unprecedented enforcement notice that would require the recreation of a demolished pub "in facsimile" within 18 months.

Brimelow McSweeney has bagged planning permission for its residential designs on 181-185 Wardour Street in the heart of Soho.