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.

Friday 13 August 2010

It's All Gone (Very) Quite Over There

No sign of any activity on the pub site at the moment.  All quiet on the Western front, you might say.  Not so much as the flap of a bat's wing or the croak of a great crested newt, in fact. 

There again, maybe this is just the lull before the storm.  The original planning application was submitted around this time last year so maybe they are just waiting for everyone to be on hols again before sneaking in another!

There was a construction lorry over on the car park this week which had us worried for a moment or two.  Further investigation revealed, however, that it had simply broken down.  Phew!

Or maybe the owners are now carrying out their threat about the pub entering a period of decay and decline...


Anyway, be vigilant.

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