Letter: Why close a community pub?
Especially as there is a well stocked shop next door.
Maybe the answer is that the elected members were asleep on the job or abrogated their responsibility to the Officers.
There was plenty of time to issue an Article 4 direction. Indeed it needs to be repeated that the Ship was sold to another publican who obtained planning permissions to improve and re-launch as a Gastro Pub with the Community being told it would reopen in November.
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Hide AdIt is a national disgrace that MSDC behaved so badly and allowed “the wool to be pulled over their eyes”.
Maybe other local authorities will be alerted to this case history, because if not we will see a whole raft of pubs changing use to the detriment of the community they serve.
Wilf Knighton
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