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a quick summary would be helpful
I've been trying - and struggling - to make proper sense of it all too to be honest. It could do with its own website to explain the background and include updates of the situation. For example, there was a 'hearing' with the 'planning inspectorate' on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, with a 'decision' due in the next few weeks.
All I really understand from it all is that this is a particularly organised objection to plans to make further changes to the building to create more flats, with the argument being that it is financially viable and in the best interests of the community to turn it back into a pub.
Scanning through the group, there are other pubs in Leyton that are getting frequently cited as success stories from similar circumstances, but I have no idea how they compare. Do you reckon its on a hiding to nothing? From talking to a pal who's in housing, he reckons the chances are miniscule. Looking through the posts, there is a message from the council that explains that the council has tried for years to get the landowner to reopen it as a pub and they're not interested. In the same post there's talk of seeing if the council will designate it a 'Asset of Community Value' and enable compulsory purchase - I have no idea if any of the hearing this week related to that.
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Thanks for flagging this up, Jonathan. I've tried going through the material, but a quick summary would be helpful--is there an application to turn the pub into an HMO, or has it been one for some years? Or is this a planning enforcement case (i.e., conversion without consent, etc.)?
I do think that community pubs are great, and I'm totally in favour of locals taking over things like this, but the immense expenditure of volunteer time needed unfortunately only leads to very rare successes. It's a bit of a fig leaf on the Government's appalling pubs policy (which was appalling even before 2010, by the way).