DRAMATIC bird's eye images show the demolition aftermath of a former city pub.

It is time to say goodbye to the former Harvester on Droitwich Road as developers MACC Care demolished the building to build a new care home.

The building, formerly known as Perdiswell House, allegedly has some parts dating back to the 1840s.

Worcester News: The former Harvester has been completely flattened. The former Harvester has been completely flattened. (Image: Chris Fowler)Worcester resident Chris Fowler had managed to snap several birdseye pictures of the construction site in Claines. 

The site on Ombersley Road looks unrecognisable from its heyday, with the building now completely flattened. 

Images show that some debris from the demolition remains on-site, and cranes are filling containers with remains from Perdiswell House.

Worcester News: Former Harvester pub, Perdiswell House, was being knocked down in April.Former Harvester pub, Perdiswell House, was being knocked down in April. (Image: Newsquest)MACC Care began demolishing the building in April to make way for its 76-bed care home.

Worcester City Council’s planning committee gave the green light to demolish the former Perdiswell Harvester and replace it with the 76-bed care home in 2023 – a year after rejecting a similar plan because it was too big.

Councillors narrowly backed the plans that MACC Care had submitted. 

Worcester News: BEFORE: The pub back in its heyday. BEFORE: The pub back in its heyday. (Image: Supplied)The pub in Claines closed its doors in April 2019 after owners Mitchells & Butlers decided to sell up three years after investing in a major refurbishment.

Since then, it has sat empty and derelict.

Before the plans for the current care home were granted, a similar plan for a 78-bed care home on the same site was rejected by councillors in 2022, who called the designs “ugly and depressing” and “lacking imagination” and akin to “barracks for warehousing people.”

Worcester News: An illustration of what the location will soon look like.An illustration of what the location will soon look like. (Image: MACC Care Group)Councillors had gone against the advice of officers when it rejected the plan and planners, who described the latest plan as “broadly identical” to the one rejected last year, again recommended the care home be approved.

A controversial plan to build a McDonald’s drive-thru on the site was eventually withdrawn in November 2019 after hundreds objected, saying it should not be built near a school.

Previously, a spokesperson for MACC Care said that the building is not listed, is unsuitable for conversion and has been assessed as a non-designated heritage asset.