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Wonky 18th century pub, The Crooked House, mysteriously burns to the ground after new owners take over
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moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
True. I suspect in this case they are both involved though whatever name is on the deeds.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
They'd need to find a wonky spirit level from somewhere.If the pub ends up being rebuilt, of course it won't be the same , but easier to do from scratch than renovating it
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
They'd need to find a wonky spirit level from somewhere.
I could put them in touch with several builders who wouldn't need wonky levels to fuck the job up to the required standard.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Don’t know where you’ve got that impression from. They seem to have form - and a list of court decisions - for similar. They aren’t ‘neighbours’ as they live in Leicestershire. And given that other pubs they’ve bought have been converted into housing I'm betting they aren’t just planning to use the land as a drive way
‘Arson attack’ pub’s owner lives the high life
Weird to see a Murdoch organ like the Times complaining about rich people stampeding all over the law and basic decency to do whatever they like. You'd think they'd be cheering these people on for sticking it to the pencil-necked wokes at the council planning department and the wishy-washy health and safety nerds at the fire service.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Perverting the course of justice, should be worth a good few months inside at least.
Ah, but it was new money demolishing a business that had cultural heritage. I doubt they’d be as arsed if it was a social housing estate.
Lurdan
old wave
Hardly. The nimby impulse in the propertied strata of society runs very deep, as Gove has found with his proposed then reworked and/or abandoned reforms to planning rules. It also crosses any party or 'left' 'right' divides. The idea that culture war stuff would outweigh the existential horror of the propertied that someone like these fuckers could get away with this sort of thing adjacent to their property is ridiculous.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
That doesn't seem to be the view of Detective Chief Superintendant Chisholm:
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Ok. Sounds like they had already checked it before it was demolished. Fair enough.That doesn't seem to be the view of Detective Chief Superintendant Chisholm:
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Also weird to see Sir Gavin Williamson and the Tories in Staffordshire attacking the developers. The pub lay on the border of the WMCA/Staffordshire border and there has been extensive greenbelt developer activity around there. It's clearly part of a plan to a a) make Dudley pick up the resulting infrastrucure burden and b) ensure the greener, posher bits of Staffordshire are left alone.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Same here in Devon. The rural districts are tacking all their developments onto Exeter so it's Exeter's roads, schools, doctors etc that have to deal with them.
skyscraper101
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Pam Ayres, legend.
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What would be really funny is if they couldn't get planning permission to do anything other than build a pub with their new found plot of land.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Realistically, that's probably the most likely result, imo.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
If the pub ends up being rebuilt, of course it won't be the same , but easier to do from scratch than renovating it
Oddly enough, a specialist firm had only just finished putting a new roof on it back in Jan., that's turned out to be a waste of time & money.
Massively speculating here but I’m thinking that the access dispute might have been about using the quarry for landfill and the pub objecting to the traffic. Buy the pub - problem solved. Although that doesn’t explain their need to demolish it unless they wanted that land to somehow facilitate the coming and going vehicles.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Whilst they get the council tax receipts
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Nah. They had shared access so there's nothing the pub could've done to stop the landfill owners using the road. Six hundred grand is a lot of money to spend on solving a dispute that doesn't need solving. Just tell the pub to get fucked, and continue using the road.
These are greedy fuckers, as evidenced by their form sheet. They were going to redevelop it somehow.
The pub was sinking though. Which made it an attraction. I’m no structural engineer so maybe they know more than me how they’re going to prevent any future building works not do similar.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
The pub was sinking though. Which made it an attraction. I’m no structural engineer so maybe they know more than me how they’re going to prevent any future building works not do similar.
Presumably it’s a geo grid job or capping. Expensive yes, but small beer considering how much they’ll take in off houses or a posh wedding venue which is the other rumoured use
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
When this happens, the site should be forfeited under the 'Proceeds of Crime Act' of whatever it's called, so that developers cannot profit from mysterious fires/arson attacks.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
They have redeveloped it somehow
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Owners of Britain’s wonkiest pub hired digger used to demolish it days before fire
AT Contracting rented vehicle from plant hire firm before major blaze, being treated by police as arson, hit historic building
Owners of Britain’s wonkiest pub hired digger used to demolish it days before fire
AT Contracting rented vehicle from plant hire firm before major blaze, being treated by police as arson, hit historic building
www.telegraph.co.uk
Lurdan
old wave
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Just beating the Sunaks as The Most Hated Couple in Britain?
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Emblematic of a strata of cunt on the rise in Britain for the last 40 years.
The massive backfiring of their latest attempt to trash and destroy areas, things and nature in the pursuit of money is good to see. But there are loads of Taylor's about.
Yossarian
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It's international news now
www.nytimes.com
Patrons Want Straight Answers in Crooked House Pub’s Demise (Published 2023)
The beloved tilted landmark in the West Midlands area of England was razed after a fire that police suspect was arson, leaving locals looking for answers.
