Beauty salon and nail bar proposed for part of former pub

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Part of the former Commercial Inn pub in Abercarn could be redeveloped into a new beauty salon and nail bar.

A new application lodged with Caerphilly County Borough Council seeks planning permission to convert the pub’s vacant ground floor and basement.

The upper floors of the building would remain in residential use.

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In a statement supporting applicant Lee Jones, agents AJ Planning said the building’s lower floors have been empty “for several years”, and the proposals would “bring a long-vacant building back into an appropriate and beneficial mixed use”.

Plans show a reception area, salon space, office and toilets would be created on the ground floor.

The proposed nail salon, storage areas and more toilets would be located at the basement level.

The application is currently out for consultation, and can be viewed on the Caerphilly County Borough Council website under reference 26/0711/COU.

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