Neighbours of a notorious pub which has been derelict for more than two years have welcomed plans to demolish it.
Residents living near the New Moon, in Main Street, Hanworth, said the watering hole used to plague their lives with drunken fights, drug dealing and even arson attacks.
The landlord, from Ilford, was also fined £1,000 after ignoring a Hounslow Council order last year to clear rubbish dumped in the car park.
Developers Hand Finance have now applied for permission to bulldoze the boarded up eyesore and replace it with a three and four-storey block of flats.
Tim Olding, 50, who has lived opposite the pub for 25 years, said: “Everyone wants to see it knocked down around here.
“It was just known for trouble, everyone from the area used to come and trouble would start, the police and ambulance were always there. We were quite glad it closed.
“The quicker the flats go up the better I think.”
Margaret Classey, 64, who has lived opposite for 17 years, said: “We had people knifed in the car park, people climbing over our fence.
“It got to the point where I almost had a breakdown over it. It was every night.”
Her husband Ian, 65, said the antisocial problems before the pub closed were “absolutely horrendous”.
He said: “The music, they used to bring vehicles in the forecourt, open all the doors and they just had them going all day.”
The couple welcomed plans to demolish the pub, but said the design was “not particularly pleasing to the eye” and residents living in four-storey blocks of flats next to the site would have their sunlight blocked out.
Mr Classey said developers made a previous application to the council for three-storey flats, but the authority rejected it because they were too high.
He said: “We welcome building plans, we really would like the pub gone, but the plans submitted are really not very good at all.”
Hand Finance, based in Tower Bridge, submitted an application to the council on April 28 to build seven two-bedroom apartments and two four-bedroom maisonettes, and the authority has launched a consultation. Agent Geraghty Taylor Architects declined to comment.
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