A Liskeard organisation has been asking pub giant JD Wetherspoon whether it still intends to build a new outlet in the centre of the town.

The Town Forum, the local community’s public debate platform, contacted the company recently hoping to get some answers as the long-running saga of a Wetherspoon coming to Liskeard continues.

The company first entered into negotiations to purchase the former Taylors Motors site on Barras Street back in 2012, and having acquired it lodged a planning application in April 2015, which was finally approved in April this year.

The application had been prolonged due to the sensitive nature of the site being within the Liskeard Development Limit in the town centre, the Conservation Area, the Historic Settlement, and because it adjoins the Grade II Listed Stuart House.

The main attachment to the permission was that work couldn’t begin until all works had been carried out to clear any possible contamination from the site’s previous use as a fuel station.

The Town Forum’s vice chairman Alan Hartridge, the former planning officer with Caradon Council, has received a statement from Wetherspoon, but there are still no indications of when the development is to begin.

The statement said: ‘We are still reviewing our works at this particular site. We are happy with the site and we are not intending to move to any other location. Our architects are putting proposals together and we are also value engineering the project with our contractors.’