A Dark Secret?

A new for sale sign adorns the fence of the G&D site this morning: James Du Pavey.  By our reckoning they are the third lot of estate agents to try their hand at selling the plot.

By all accounts, the site has already been sold subject to contract on two previous occasions so what's the problem?  What's the stumbling block that's preventing completion?  What dark secret does the land hold that only comes to light when potential buyers look at the fine detail?  And will James Du Pavey have any more luck than Butters John Bee and Daniel & Hulme?

The site is now on the market at £625k so it looks like the owners have reduced their price a bit but will it be enough to overcome whatever secret lurks beneath the rubble of what used to be the pub?  Only time will tell.

We wish the good folks at James Du Pavey all the best with this one.  The saga has gone on long enough.

An Interesting Chat

We had an interesting chat with a chap from the Highways Department on Friday.  Seems he had been asked to visit the site following an anonymous report that something was not quite as it should be with the fence. 

Whoever made the report was spot on.  The fence has been erected several feet beyond the site boundary.  In other words, whoever put it up has "appropriated" land which isn't theirs.  We'd noticed it ourselves and, if memory serves correctly, one of our readers has pointed it out in the past.   Anyway, well done to the person or persons unknown who brought it to the attention on the Highways Dept.  Their representative has now gone away armed with a load of photos showing the transgression in all its glory.

Let's just hope they do something about it and have the fence moved.