The owners of the Bitterne Park Hotel, which closed on Monday and was boarded up on Wednesday (Jan 15), say they’d like it to re-open as a pub. Pic: Ann MacGillivray

What next for Bitterne Park Hotel?

Previously we asked ‘What next for the Bitterne Park Hotel’ – especially in the light of several recent Southampton pub sell-offs to make way for small supermarkets.

Enterprise Inns told bitternepark.info: “We can confirm that the Bitterne Park Hotel closed on Monday following the publican's decision to cease trading. However our aim is for the pub to resume trading at the earliest opportunity and we are actively recruiting for a new publican. Anyone interested in finding out more about this pub business opportunity can contact Enterprise on 0800 953 0072.”

Whether there'll be a queue of people wanting to take up Enterprise's offer and run the pub remains to be seen. But some suggestions for success for anyone willing and able to take up the challenge came in comments to our earlier story on our Facebook page, which you can find from this link; 'Like' the page to receive bitternepark.info updates to your own Facebook stream.