Clearly someone owns the pub! Workmen have been around this week boarding up the windows and not before time too. Whether this is due to council or police pressure brought about to address the use of the premises for drug related activities, we don't know.
And with regard to ownership, as far as we have been able to establish, Milwood Ltd. are now the owners of the pub having negotiated the sale directly with the previous owners. This might explain why the "for sale" sign came down before we heard that the pub had been sold.
What happens next, though, is still anybody's guess. Whether Milwood will sell the site on to another party or wait until economic circumstances improve remains to be seen. And, of course, they may well have some other motive for not taking any action for the moment. We've written to their representative who emailed us back in June but so far we have yet to receive the courtesy of a reply. Seems to be par for the course with email. If you don't want to reply, just ignore it.
As usual, if you hear of any other developments do let us know.
