Full checklist as Wetherspoons to open 11 new UK pubs by July

The primary one will open in a couple of days.

Wetherspoon External Signage, Clapham, London.

Full checklist as Wetherspoons to open 11 new UK pubs by July – and one in Europe (Picture: Getty)

Wetherspoon is about to open 11 new pubs throughout the UK by July, and launch its first Spanish pub inside days. The cut price chain will open its first-ever European boozer at Alicante Airport in Spain subsequent week, on February 9.

Named Castell de Santa Bàrbera, the brand new website will serve travellers from 6am to 9pm, seven days per week, and can characteristic 1,000 sq. toes of indoor house alongside an outside terrace. The chain additionally plans to open pubs in Birmingham College, Edinburgh, Tub and Hayle in Cornwall, with 4 extra websites opening at Haven Vacation Parks.

Proposals for a pub at Paddington Station are additionally reportedly within the pipeline, spanning 3,600 sq. toes throughout two flooring, together with a mezzanine with direct entry to the Bakerloo line. The date is but to be confirmed.

This comes regardless of Wetherspoon’s stark warning over rising prices in its newest accounts filed with Corporations Home, which said that its power payments rose by 57% and its wages by 34.5%, each of which had a “heavy affect on all different enter costs”.

It mentioned that regardless of gross sales within the monetary yr 2025 growing by 17% in comparison with pre-pandemic yr of 2019, amassing £2,1billion, its income and earnings have been nonetheless beneath pre-pandemic ranges.

“A important lesson of the financial issues of the Seventies has been unlearnt in recent times – that’s, if power costs go up, as they did within the Seventies, inflation outcomes; and nearly everyone seems to be poorer, apart from these firms and nations which produce power,” its July 2025 accounts warned.

“A selected concern of Wetherspoon is the absence of public debate about power coverage,” it emphasised, stating that renewable power would require “standby” power sources, and counting on nuclear power would require a “colossal quantity of sources”.

In a transfer to alleviate monetary pressures on pubs, Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed on January 27 that pubs and music venues in England will obtain a 15% low cost on enterprise charges from April, after backlash towards plans to extend charges within the November Funds. Reception has been very combined, with some saying this doesn’t go far sufficient.

Ms Reeves mentioned: “We’re backing British pubs with extra assist, and our new Excessive Streets Technique will assist sort out the long-term challenges that our much-loved retail, leisure and hospitality companies have confronted.”

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