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.

Thursday 4 October 2012

Curious & Curiouser

You may have seen the article in tonight's Sentinel reporting that Milwood Ltd. no longer intend to develop the pub site.  The article, however, does not say what the company plan to do with it.  We have written to the Milwood representative who contacted The Blog back in June and will let you know as soon as we hear something.

In the meantime, if you are able to shed any further light on the situation please get in touch.

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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous9 October 2012 at 19:55

    Very interesting,I have just caught up with the news.I see from the Sentinel site that the Milwood MD said "We look at sites to develop in the S o T area and we were THINKING about buying the site but for various reasons we didn`t submit the planning permission"

    Now this may not be a literal publication of what he actually said by the Sentinel but it at least infers that they have not bought the site.
    In the earlier blog submission nowhere is ownership mentioned.

    Do they actually own the G&D site at all or was the intention to seek planning permission (and its approval) a preliminary to purchase which has now fallen through ?

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  2. John18 October 2012 at 20:31

    We're just as much in the dark as you are about this one. The earlier story in the Sentinel refers to Milwood as the "new owners" and the email from them (shown on The Blog) states that they intend to submit a new planning application. Would they do this if they didn't own the property already? Strange.

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  3. Anonymous26 October 2012 at 13:20

    Interestingly,over a pub conversation I heard that indeed "developers" do seek/apply for planning permission on property that they do not (yet) own in order to check out potential.
    It wouldn`t have occurred to me that this was feasible or common but apparently it happens regularly.
    If the response looks good to them they consider purchase,if not they walk away.
    Possibly the latter occurred in this case ?

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