Former pub site in central Stratford to be turned into flats

IT’S TAKEN four years but developers finally have the green light to turn the former Green Dragon site on the corner of Arden and Greenhill Streets into a mixed residential and commercial-use block.

Despite strong and long-running objections that the four-storey development is ‘overbearing’, ‘dwarfs’ other buildings and is ‘not appropriate for an historic town’, the scheme at 1 Arden Street was granted planning permission by Stratford District Council, subject to conditions.

The first, second and third floors will be transformed into 16 apartments - 14 one-bedroom and two two-bedroom.

Six apartments are on the first floor, six on the second and four on the third.

The application 21/02447/FUL, approved in the spring, dates back to July 2021 and was originally for 18 flats.