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Plans to turn well-known pub into supermarket confuse the Black Country with Wiltshire

A well-known real ale pub will be converted into a supermarket if plans are approved by planners.

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But the developer behind the scheme for The Old Chainyard in Coseley may need to amend its application to Dudley Council, after submitting data for a pub in Wiltshire instead.

An unnamed retailer – believed to be Asda – has applied to turn the pub in Castle Street, Coseley, into a grocery store.

But a planning statement issued by CPC Planning Consultants, in support of the application, confuses it with The Masons Arms – a pub in Wiltshire.

The proposals will see the pub extended at the rear to provide 3,634 sq ft of floorspace.