Plans have been lodged to extend the outdoor space of a popular Teesside Wetherspoon. 

The popular pub chain wants to develop a new pavement café and beer garden with "summer opening windows" at The Swatters Carr, on Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough. 

The proposals, submitted to Middlesbrough Council last month, detail how the new space would be based down the side of the pub, on Victoria Road, which would undergo a partial pedestrianisation. 

The road would be resurfaced similar to that of the already installed pedestrian route that leads to the Teesside University campus behind the pub.

The Swatters Carr - which spans across three stories - was formerly known as The Empire Hotel and has been a public house for more than a century. 

It was recorded in 1891 as the Swatters Carr Hotel, with the name coming from an isolated farmhouse that was first recorded on a map in 1618. 

If approved, the application would see loose furniture and moveable planters featured in the new outdoor space. 

Existing windows looking onto Victoria Road would be transformed into summer opening windows with barriers, with the addition of larger glazing to eight existing windows. 

This would allow for “more light into the public house and ensure a better connection to the street and the proposed external area”.

Portable planters would be added to the street to create a barrier around the space, with new gates for access linking it to the current beer garden, which faces Linthorpe Road. 

CGI images show how a mixture of planters and Wetherspoon barriers would be used to segment the outdoor space with the long glazing windows being on either side of a set of doors.

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The plans state how vehicle access to the road would be altered and the number of parking bays that line the side of the street, adjacent to the pub, would be reduced. 

The Swatters Carr remains as Middlesbrough’s only Wetherspoons, following the closure of The Resolution. It still has several locations across Teesside however, including The Highland Laddie and The Thomas Sheraton in Stockton.

The application is currently under assessment with a planning officer.