A FORMER Wellington pub has secured a new future as plans to convert the site into a community use facility with offices and a three-bedroom home are approved.

After purchasing The Dolphin Inn site at the end of 2023, Ashley and Jess Vellacot, of Sleeps12.com Ltd, applied for planning permission to reimagine the former pub as a community, office, and residential space.

The business owners were granted permission to go ahead with the proposed changes on Friday, February 28.

Known for its previously decorative blue exterior, The Dolphin Inn was closed in January 2020. The Waterloo Road pub was then purchased by the firm Sleeps12.com Ltd after it was put on the market for sale in August 2023.