ABOUT THIS BLOG

This popular and historic pub was acquired by its owners in 2009 with a view, initially, to building flats for social housing and then subsequently developing a small housing estate. Local residents opposed these plans from the start.

Planning permission was granted in 2010 after which the site was put up for sale. After many years of inactivity, building work finally started in July 2015. Locally, this was seen as good news. However, the houses have yet to be completed.

The aim of this Blog has been to keep residents informed of current developments and to record the long history of this small community's fight to keep its pub.

Monday 8 February 2010

The Letter

If, like us, you have received a letter from Stafford Borough Council dated 2nd February, you may be wondering what the "amendment" is all about and why there is no trace of an "amendment" on the BC Portal.  We have it on the very best authority that the term is used to refer to any  new material received on  the application rather than the usual meaning ie. that something has been altered in some way.

Anyway, the upshot of it is that the amendment consists of two surveys that the owners have commissioned, one into the presence, or not, of bats, the other is a badger survey.

With regard to the bats, their survey says that they found no evidence of the creatures in the pub (mind you we have seen some odd characters hanging around of late).  Likewise with the badgers.  The survey did not detect any setts on the site itself but there are a number within 35 metres. 

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