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.

Sunday 18 May 2014

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.
at 14:49

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 May 2014 at 14:02

    My information on this is that more than one member of the community pointed this out to the council following the earlier blogpost.
    As is pointed out here any deviations need highlighting speedily and formally. SBC is the developers friend,and we can be sure that the developer isn`t ours !

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  2. John22 May 2014 at 20:32

    Quite right too! However, all may not be as it seemed earlier on in the week. We've another post coming about a more recent development.

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