The Government has said it intends to introduce legislation meaning planning permission would be required to change the use of or demolish a pub listed as an asset of community value (ACV).
Waltham Forest Council is looking into issuing an Article 4 Direction on all pubs in the London borough, following a petition from local residents after five pubs in the area were lost in five weeks.
Dear Mr Hopkins (I don’t know you well enough to address you as Kris), I recently delivered a keynote speech at a pub industry event at which I suggested that this Government has been a largely positive administration for the pub sector.
