NEW plans have emerged to turn a well-known pub into flats - only months after another scheme was dropped after protests.

Plans to tear down the Gimcrack Hotel, in Fulford, York, and develop homes were withdrawn in April after residents and council officers objected to them.

Now another housebuilder, R and S Construction, of Bielby, near Pocklington, wants to develop the site into 24 flats.

It is proposing to convert the existing main building into four flats and only to demolish the former coach house, a detached single-storey building.

In addition the existing flat-roofed two-storey side extension would be demolished and replaced with a new two-storey extension to form two more flats.

The rest of the flats would be in two blocks, a two-storey block of four flats and a three-storey block of 14 flats.

Earlier this year, Cleckheaton-based Jones Homes withdrew plans for 19 homes after 900 signatures were collected opposing the plan and the council's officers said there was no justification for demolition of the Gimcrack building.

Although the building is not listed, the pub is in the Fulford Road conservation area, which means special consideration needs to be given before permission is granted to change its appearance.