Plans to turn empty shop into bar with crazy golf

A business owner wanted to turn a vacant cycling store into a craft beer bar and restaurant with its own indoor crazy golf course.

The Peterborough building, most recently occupied by Rutland Cycling, is located next to the Orton Meadows Golf Course on Ham Lane, within the wider Ferry Meadows Country Park.

Neil Treliving, the man behind the city centre's Blind Tiger bar in Cowgate, hoped to expand his business in the empty building, which is owned by the Nene Park Trust and submitted a planning application.

According to Local Democracy Reporting Service, Mr Treliving previously told the Peterborough Telegraph that the new venue will be "a bit more cosy than the slightly industrial feel of the Cowgate bar".

He added: "This will be more of a sit-down place where we will be serving food as well as a massive selection of craft beers and wines."

Plans submitted to Peterborough City Council included space for leisure facilities upstairs, a potential indoor crazy golf and an escape room, with the bar and restaurant on the ground floor.

The proposed development would enable 15 jobs, six full-time and nine part-time, and aimed to complement the existing golf course and Pitch and Putt.

Mr Treliving's application was validated on Tuesday and will be decided on by city council planners at a later date.

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