Thursday 28 November 2013
No Doubt About It
The site of the pub is now fenced off with the JCB inside. No doubt about what is going to happen next.
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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.
As the website so succinctly says "Destroyed by greedy speculators,let down by politicians"......we expect this from developers,they exist to exploit opportunity.
ReplyDeleteThe politicians however are surely supposed to represent our interests.......SBC councillors and employees certainly did not represent the Rough Close community interests and the good old G&D is the victim.We can have no confidence that this will change going forward.
The culprits are the Developer and SBC together.....let us not forget that.