A pub on the border of Ordsall and Salford Quays that closed after a drinker was shot is to be turned into a hotel.
Salford-based developer, Mr A Tal, has now been given permission to turn the former Broadway Inn into an ‘aparthotel’, a hotel-apartment hybrid typically attracting guests for anywhere between one night and three months.
The pub on Broadway, opposite Oasis MediaCityUK Academy school, has been vacant since it was shut by the Holts brewery in October 2014.
Plans for a 13-bedroom hotel were withdrawn in February 2015 but the Salford-based agents, Debtal Architecture, put forward revised plans in April to change the ground-floor pub with living accommodation upstairs into 11 serviced apartments.
There will be few external changes, and the brick building won’t be demolished, but part of the rear yard will be enclosed with a new roof to form new rooms.
Each of the 11 bedrooms will be available without fixed contracts, using a hotel-syle booking system.
A council report notes the former pub’s “highly accessible location off Trafford Road” as a deciding factor in granting the application.
The 1970s-built estate pub became popular as a pre-football match venue but a 2012 shooting signed its death knell.
At around 9.20pm on Wednesday 19 April a gunman walked into the pub vault and shot a 23-year-old man twice in the leg.
Watch: Interview with pub landlord after shooting at Salford Quays pub
The landlord at the time, Les Alder, told SalfordOnline.com in the aftermath of the shooting: “I heard two shots, then came running down the stairs to find a young man lying on the floor of the main room of the pub.”
The victim, who was believed to be deliberately targeted, was rushed to hospital under armed guard.
The pub’s reputation never recovered and it was forced to close two years later.
