Derelict Dudley pub bought for £1.3 million

But uncertainty still hangs over the future of the King Arthur pub in Dudley with its new Jersey-based owner still to publicly announced what will happen to the crumbling site.

Documents from the Land Registry reveal a company called Jahorina Limited completed the purchase of the pub, on the corner of Birmingham New Road and Priory Road, for £1,320,000 in April last year.

The site was purchased from Wolverhampton-based Goldleaf Leisure, which was dissolved in December.

Goldleaf Leisure owner Amrinder Sandhu had been granted permission to turn the pub into a 70-bedroom hotel four years ago – but the plan never materialised and a later proposal to knock down the building was lodged.

Today ward councillor Ken Finch called on the pub's new owner to come out publicly and announced what is planned for the site, which has been hit with arson and vandalism.

He said: "We have had different owners and different plans, but nothing has happened to the pub since it closed and we now have problems with fires and fly-tipping at the site.

"The council is talking with the owner, but we need to put more pressure on them to do something."

Councillor Finch is to meet with officers today to discuss the situation.

In October, the pub was overlooked by English Heritage for a listed building status. However, Dudley Council has made an order, called an Article 4 Direction, which means the site cannot be demolished without permission from the council's development control commitee. Since the pub was earmarked for a £3.5 million hotel in May 2010, Mr Sandhu then secured consent to demolish the site, but the council has since stepped in to stop it.

A proposal to open a car wash operation on the pub car park was refused by the council three years ago.

Today, the pub has its windows and doors boarded up. It was also damaged by a fire last year.

The pub was built in 1939 by Dudley-based architects Webb and Gray. It closed in 2011.