Heineken’s Star Pubs chain released the locations of 12 of the 62 pubs it’s re-opening this year (Picture: Star Pubs / Metro.co.uk Graphics)
Heineken is reopening 62 pubs across the UK this year after investing £39,000,000 into its Star Pubs chain.
Communities will see their beloved local pubs return after a rough few years for the hospitality industry, with Covid-19 closures and rising inflation.
The country lost an average of 32 pubs each month in 2022, City AM reported.
But Star Pubs ‘is on track to have the lowest number of closed pubs since 2019’ thanks to an injection of cash from the Dutch brewing company.
More than 600 pubs – a quarter of the chain’s 2,400 establishments – will get a makeover to their interior, toilets and gardens, including 62 ‘long-term closed locals’.
The company hopes the revamps will create 1,075 new jobs.
This map shows 12 of the 62 pubs set to be re-opened by Heineken’s Star Pubs chain in the UK this year (Picture: Metro.co.uk)
Lawson Mountstevens, managing director of Star Pubs, said: ‘[People] want great surroundings and food and drink as well as activities that give them an extra reason to go out, such as sports screenings and entertainment.
‘Creating fantastic locals that can accommodate a range of occasions meets this need and helps pubs fulfil their role as vital third spaces where communities can come together.’
The company has shared a list of 12 of the pubs set to re-open this year. All are in England.
The newly refurbished Wildmoor Oak (Picture: Ian Hodgkinson / Picture It)
Of those, two have already opened this month.
Six months since it closed, The Cherry Tree, a pub in Witham, Essex dating to the early 1900s, has re-launched as a ‘family-friendly community village pub’ after a £180,000 upgrade.
In Aveley, Essex, The Crown & Anchor was closed for a year before a £244,000 transformation into a sports and entertainment bar.
The Crown & Anchor after it was renovated (Picture: Star Pubs)
A third, The Wildmoor Oak gastro pub near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, just south of Birmingham, will be revived from 18 months of closure later this month after a £513,000 revamp.
Mountstevens said: ‘Pubs have proved their enduring appeal; after all the disruption of recent years, Star is on track to have the lowest number of closed pubs since 2019.
Which Heineken pubs are re-opening this year?
Some of the previously closed Star Pubs set for re-launch in 2024 are:
The Cherry Tree in Witham, Essex
The Crown & Anchor, Aveley, Essex
The Wildmoor Oak at Wildmoor near Bromsgrove
The Black Bull, Ecclesfield, Sheffield
The Hesketh Tavern, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, Stockport
The Junction, Wombwell, South Yorkshire
The Manvers Arms, Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire
The Punch Bowl, West Hallam, Derbyshire
The Rose of Denmark, Bristol
Roxy’s Steak & Tap, Twickenham
The Talbot, Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire
The Winterton Arms, Chiddingfold, Surrey
‘It’s a tribute to the drive and entrepreneurship of licensees and the importance of continued investment.
‘We’ve spent more than £200m upgrading and maintaining our pubs over the last five years, and we’ll continue to invest to keep them open and thriving.
‘Time and again we see the value consumers place on having a good local and how important it is to communities.
‘Well-invested pubs run by great licensees are here to stay, but like all locals, they need government support to reduce the enormous tax burden they shoulder.’
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