{"id":726593,"date":"2026-01-28T15:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726593\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:29:15","slug":"historic-tong-road-pub-submits-plans-to-tackle-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726593\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Tong Road pub submits plans to tackle leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By George Jenkins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The owners of the historic Star Inn, on Tong Road, have submitted plans to re-tile part of its leaking roof.<\/p>\n<p>The pub, which was built between 1870-1890, has been listed as a Grade II<br \/>site by Historic England, meaning it holds historic value that must be maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Plans have been submitted to Leeds City Council as the building is deemed to need urgent<br \/>repairs to prevent further water damage.<\/p>\n<p>Work includes the replacement of concrete tiles with natural slates, which will match the rest of the roof, the replacement of a broken ground-floor window pane, and the removal of rot.<\/p>\n<p>The concrete tiles need replacing due to their poor quality, which have allowed for water ingress whence rains, as well as being unauthorised by the local planning<br \/>authority.<\/p>\n<p>A decision is expected by Monday, 16 March.<\/p>\n<p>The Star has been a nationally protected historic site for nearly 30 years, but has been<br \/>shut for the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Historic England see The Star as a \u201crare survival of a roadside inn at an important road<br \/>junction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The plans<a href=\"https:\/\/publicaccess.leeds.gov.uk\/online-applications\/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=dates&amp;keyVal=T8HW9OJBFXA00\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> can be viewed in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By George Jenkins The owners of the historic Star Inn, on Tong Road, have submitted plans to re-tile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,213111,4884,1860,46943,5520,216319,16,15,207326],"class_list":["post-726593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-george-jenkins","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-planning-application","tag-the-star","tag-tong-road","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wortley"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115973440488597294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}