Beaconsfield Wetherspoon's: New pub and £2.2 million building makeover given the go-ahead

JD Wetherspoon confirmed in October 2021 that they would be spending more than £2 million on overhauling the old Prezzo restaurant on Station Road, which also used to be a cinema, into a new pub. 

Prezzo shut its doors in early 2021 and the building has been empty ever since. 

As part of its plans, which Buckinghamshire Council have last week given the go-ahead, the building will be reconfigured inside, including removing the small rooms at the front and back.

Photos from planning documents show how the terrace will look

The pub will feature an open bar and dining and drinking areas on the ground floor level, while a new staircase will be installed to link the ground floor to more space for customers on the first floor. 

The "void space" in the building which is caused by a mezzanine level will be reduced to create extra floor space upstairs. 

There will also be a new first floor terrace extension built at the back of the building to provide more space for customers as well as a terrace at the front of the building for outdoor seating. 

A second entrance from the side alleyway will provide level access for disabled customers to use, and a lift will also be installed inside. 

The pub will be open Sunday to Thursday from 7am until midnight and Friday anfd Saturday, 7am to 1am. 

The kitchen will operate between 8am and 11am and the outside seating area at the back will shut every day at 9pm. At the front, the outside seating areas will close at 9pm, except on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays when it will close at 10pm instead. 

It's not clear yet what the new pub will be called, or when it might open. 

How it looked as Prezzo

A spokesman previously told the Bucks Free Press up to 70 staff members would be employed after the £2.2 million makeover of the building. 

It will be the town's second Wetherspoon's, after the Hope and Champion at Beaconsfield Services. 

The striking building used to house the Chiltern Cinema, but it closed in the 1980s shortly after a six-screen multiplex opened in Cressex, High Wycombe (now Empire).

Before it was Prezzo, it was Zoom Children's Adventure Funhouse but plans to turn it into a restaurant were given the go-ahead by the council in 2011.