A High Wycombe pub’s plan to create an entertainment and billiards hall has been scrapped, Buckinghamshire Council has confirmed.

Suraj Karki applied to the authority for planning permission to transform the Dolphin Eye pub in April of this year.

But his plans for the watering hole and Indian-Nepalese restaurant at 56 Totteridge Lane have now been withdrawn.

The council confirmed the plans had been shelved this week, meaning its planning officers would not issue a formal decision on the application.

The new rooms at the pub would have been housed in the existing coach house at the site, which would have been converted with a new window and doors, according to the application.

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All materials would have matched the existing building and would ‘not have affected the character and appearance of the area’, the applicant’s design statement said.

One section of the document read: “The billiards room, is a unique, multi-purpose space, where our antique wooden meeting table unveils a hidden gem as this can be transformed into a fully-fledged billiards table.”

The proposed entertainment hall would have been to the front of the pub and ‘would not have been highly visible’ within the conservation area, according to the applicant.

His plans read: “It is considered that there would be no undue harm to the character and appearance of the conservation area.

“The proposed materials used will match in colour and style of the existing building and will therefore be in keeping with the character of the original buildings.”

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