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High profile tenant rights campaigner Inez Ward faces eviction from her pub after breaching the terms of her lease by closing.
But Ward, who runs the Justice for Licensees campaign group and was the brains behind the Pubco Protest march, has vowed to carry on the fight for fairness for tied tenants across the country.
She has been at Mavericks in Newquay, Cornwall for seven years but was forced to shut two weeks ago after bailiffs cut off the electricity over an £11,500 bill. The pub and living quarters currently have no lighting, heating or hot water.
Enterprise has served a section 146 notice on Ward informing her that she has breached the terms of her lease by not being open.
She has until 20 May to rectify the problem or the pubco will start forfeiture proceedings. However, Ward is likely to be declared bankrupt at a hearing on 7 May. If declared bankrupt, the premises licence would lapse.
She also owes Enterprise almost £11,000 in costs after a failed bid to take out an inter
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Columbo 03/04/2009 09:55:28 |
RE: Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction I think that Inez would make a great mp, she is passionate and hardwroking and beleives in fairness. Perhaps she should be thinking along these lines, I am sure she would be able to reach people, because of her straight talking and charm. Come on guys, lets think about this, as now she will have time to devote to helping people in trouble, she has had plently of experience in this field herself, and she is natural with the media. This post replies to this thread |
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| Tony Preston 03/04/2009 11:29:08 |
Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction Lets say there are 15,000 EI and Puinch pubs - and lets say only 40% are 'bothered' about the tie. I'm not saying these are true figures, I just need something to start. So, that is 6,000 pubs. If we all give £1 a week, so £52 P/A, that would be £312,000 per year. That would pay Inez say £40,000 and give her a pot to start 'doing' things - press, letters (at 40p a letter that would need £2,400 for 6000 pubs, plus return postage and not including time), legal advice, collating statistical evidence - getting the facts and figures to prove we are disadvantaged, and also allow her to build up a small team to help. It will give us a voice - orchestrated, unified and focussed. We would have a fair and dedicated campaigner and someone we all know is passionate about our industry, who listens to reason and provides a fair argument. So, this forum is not the place to make this happen, so how do we do it? edited by: Tony Preston at: 03/04/2009 11:30:04 This post replies to this thread |
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Inez Ward 03/04/2009 11:36:37 |
Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction Let's hope there is enough petrol to do this lol. Thanks guys I'd do it for free lol although funding would certainly help. Tony there is more to the pubco debacle than just the tie, there are the rents and my personal pet hate lol the business practices. And that's before we even start of the rest of the muppets who are attacking this trade. To fight them the trade needs to unite, the trade will never unite whilst the pubco debacle is ongoing. This post replies to this thread |
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ali batty 03/04/2009 11:54:00  |
Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction Good idea Inez is full of passion and stamina and a credit to us all, Ill give to back her (or give her petrol money and then clain it on my expenses1) This post replies to Inez Ward > Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction |
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| Tony Preston 03/04/2009 11:58:25 |
RE: Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction How disheartening is this. You try and try, face financial woes which result in power being cut, then this leads to closure, which leads to your propco evicting you for being closed and the closure being contrary you the terms of your lease. What sort of pathetic, immoral and resolutely abhorrent type of society do we live in where a 7 year business can be closed by the landlords because the electricity is off due to the tenent fighting to survive? In a partnership, a company with scruples, who benefits so much from the contractual relationship financially, would have helped the tenant. Perhaps pay the arrears, redress the business plan, look at a immediate to long-term recovery plan. Sure, put the cost of the bill onto the lessees account and amortise over a fixed term in line with the revised business plan, and sure, set targets and goals that are realistic and achievable and that if are not met incur some sort of revisit to the situation. Gut wrenching – we should all be ashamed we have allowed society to get to this point where power and wealth are so fundamentally important that human beings suffer in the delinquent and self-destroying unfulfilled quest for wealth – where entire nations starve and die because they have no saleable resource and thus are not important enough for the human race as a whole to bother about because no money can be made from them – where we get people on pittance pay to make clothes in far-away places because we are not prepared to pay them a decent wage for a decent living because we won’t make enough profit if they live a normal life, and where decent normal folk are shoved aside without thought or consequence because circumstance dictates they are no longer profitable enough for ones requirements – let us not invest time in the person, let us not invest compassion, foresight, care or community – let’s toss them aside in the never ending quest for profit. May greed be the arbiter of the unscrupulous persons downfall. This post replies to this thread |
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| info man 03/04/2009 12:06:18 |
Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction Tony, it would still be cheaper than the BII and more productive. We need a fighting fund to work with the expertise of the likes of fairpint to face the bullies in court. This post replies to Tony Preston > Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction |
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| William Bass 03/04/2009 12:56:12 |
RE: Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction "In a partnership, a company with scruples, who benefits so much from the contractual relationship financially, would have helped the tenant" - isn't the point here that Enterprise Inns are not benefiting financially, as she owes them £11000 plus? This post replies to Tony Preston > RE: Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction |
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| ali batty 03/04/2009 13:04:08 |
RE: Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction William Bass, as with many of us owing pubco, Its because of inflated product prices no other reason, Six months ago I owed them £4000 being a week behind order thats all, after becoming fully tied same amount of beer, much higher price I owe them £15000 not rocket science! This post replies to William Bass > RE: Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction |
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| info man 03/04/2009 13:35:52 |
RE: Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction More to the point isnt it fact that Enterprise have benifitted from charging her a tied value on her product which makes them over £240 Per brewers barrel. Where is her benifit from this, it is not in lower rents when compared to a free of tie operator. Her gp% would have been greatly reduced to that of a free of tie operator as would her profit. Even on 100bb per annum Enterprise would have charged her 50% rent based on potential profit and taken £24,000 in additional revenue through the tie. Does this seem like a fair partnership? She has been there 7 years so £11,000 seems pathetic when put against £168,000+ dont you think? edited by: info man at: 03/04/2009 13:36:36 This post replies to William Bass > RE: Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction |
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| robert winston 03/04/2009 14:31:47 |
RE: Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction can anyone tell me what happened with the Brewlines court case a few weeks ago? I need to know before i go to court on the 7th which is tuesday. This post replies to info man > RE: Pub tenant campaigner faces eviction |
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