PLANS to demolish Alexandra Working Men’s Club in Royston have finally been submitted to the council following months of speculation.

The club, on High Street, was closed for much of last year and a notice had been placed on a nearby lamppost informing locals of its forthcoming demolition.

However no application had formally been submitted to the council to demolish the site, until this week.

According to a planning statement there is no intention to reopen the site and bosses behind the scheme say they could soon be in a position where they need to ‘urgently demolish’ the site.

The report said: “The Alexandra Working Men’s Club is long-term closed and has no plans to reopen.

“Unfortunately, the buildings have been of keen interest to vandals and trespassers some of which have illegally broken in and caused damage in doing so.

“Our client Samuel Smith’s Brewery have asked me to progress the demolishment process before we find ourselves in a similar situation to the Bullet Sports and Social Club in Grimethorpe which we had to urgently demolish due to structurally catastrophic fire damage.

“The buildings will be taken down carefully to limit the possibility of dust, however they will also be using dust suppression methods as per the HSE guidelines.

“Our specialist demolition contractor will segregate all waste material and salvage all reuseable materials to pass on to the reclamation sector for re-entry into the consumer market.

“Items such as rubble which aren’t used to grade the area will be crushed off-site and downcycled into aggregate which can enter the building sector for use.

“Items to landfill will be at a last resort.”

Should planning permission be granted, bosses say that the demolition will take between eight to ten weeks.

Public consultation ends on February 14.