A non-brewery in Biddulph has applied for permission to expand with the sale of beers on site and a seating area for customers to enjoy their drinks.

Biddulph Nub News reported back in May how a planning application to install a new "nano-brewery" on a Biddulph industrial estate was granted approval.

The brewery, which has now been named Hoplab, is located on Forge Way at unit 3D of the Brown Lees Road industrial estate in Biddulph.

Following the successful planning application earlier this year the district council gave permission for a small-scale brewery with "a brew room used for the production of ales, including mashing of barley, boiling wort, fermenting the brew in sealed tanks, and then conditioning the product in tanks and kegs".

Now a new planning application has been submitted, along with a licensing application that seeks permission to serve beers to customers on site and expand the brewery with a customer seating area.

A planning statement submitted as part of the application states: "Following a recent application for a premises licence it has been deemed by the Local Planning Authority that the area put forward for a licence exceeded the extent of floorspace on the previously approved plans and would allow for the sale of beer on the site and customers to visit, and thus considered to be in breach of the planning consent. This revised application has been submitted to resolve that matter.

"This revised proposal encompasses a larger area associated with the nano-brewery. It includes the originally approved 17.2 square metres of floorspace, along with an additional 48.3 square metres of floorspace that is to be used as a seating area where customers can drink alcohol prepared on the premises, as well as an ancillary storage area for grain, brewing equipment and materials."

The district council will have the final say on the licensing and planning applications at a later date.