Sam Maguire pub could make way for hotel with nearly 60 rooms

TOURISM and business in Wealdstone could get a boost if plans to demolish a derelict pub and build a 57-room hotel are agreed.
The part three- and part four-storey replacement building, on the site of the vacant Sam Maguire venue in High Street, would incorporate a franchise café on the ground floor, according to developers Macneil, a care home operator from Finchley, north London.
In lodging the new proposal, the company has withdrawn one submitted a year ago to tear down the pub and construct a four-storey care home that would have provided 24-hour care for elderly residents unable to live independently, and two shops at street level.
The man behind Macneil also owns Lukka Care Homes which in November 2006 won permission from Harrow Council to knock down The Flying Eagle pub in Mollison Way, Edgware, and in its place put up a 53-bed nursing home.
Harrow Council itself briefly looked into purchasing the Sam Maguire hostelry - formerly the Queen's Head - in September 2004, by which time the venue had long closed and was owned by the Punch Pub Company.