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.

Saturday 1 May 2010

Bill on a Flying Visit

Surprise of all surprises today when no lesser a person than Bill Cash came knocking on our door.  He called in to assure the residents of Rough Close of his continued support for our opposition to the planning proposals.

We had been hoping to arrange a meeting with a group of locals but unfortunately Bill couldn't fit it into his schedule.  Something to do with next Thursday ...

No matter.  It's the support that counts.  He is strongly opposed to situations like the one in which we find ourselves where owners demolish pubs of long standing to develop houses for their own financial gain and to the detriment of the local community.  He even talked about the possibilities of introducing legal aid for people affected in this way.  A bit late for us, though.

Anyway, keep those letters rolling in to SBC.
at 16:05

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous4 May 2010 at 14:34

    did he say if he had a response from ian thompson at sbc when asked him to investigate the shoddy performance which was under his responsibility?

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