As the Autumn Budget approaches, the pub sector has plenty on its plate and must come together to try to battle the onerous taxes and other financial expenses on the horizon.
Just weeks before the autumn budget (November 22), calls to protect pubs by capping business rates at 12.5% have been restated by Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for St Albans Daisy Cooper.
Not enough is being done by local authorities to ensure promised rates relief is being distributed to businesses, the Association of Multiple Licensed Retailers (ALMR) has warned.
The leader of the Liberal Democrats has said the Government has left “thousands of pubs in the lurch” as research from the party revealed at least 4,500 pubs eligible for business rates relief are still awaiting payment, with a total of £4.54m still outstanding.
Chair of the British Pub Confederation MP Greg Mulholland lost his Leeds North West seat in the general election, that has ended in a hung parliament that saw most pub campaigning MPs re-elected.
The Liberal Democrat Party has said it wants to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol in its pre-election manifesto to “help people stay healthy”.
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has published its manifesto echoing demands first set out by the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) to introduce an annual business rates discount for pubs of £5,000.
Accusations from British Pub Confederation chair and Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland that newly appointed pubs code adjudicator and Fleurets director Paul Newby will not be independent have been branded a ‘disgraceful set of slurs’ by business minister...
Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the Opposition, is a teetotaller, and despite delivering his victory speech in a Westminster pub, he hasn’t spoken often on them in parliament. But that hasn’t stopped him supporting a wide range of pub-related motions...
The Liberal Democrats will pledge to force developers to submit planning permission before a pub can be converted to another use or demolished in its General Election manifesto, according to MP Greg Mulholland.
Greg Mulholland has said it is ‘inevitable’ a mandatory free-of-tie option will be added to the pubco statutory code plans – but refused to say if he would table an amendment.
A pub finance specialist has defended the Liberal Democrats’ adoption of ‘pro-pub’ policies last month and claimed that banks are “desperate to increase lending” to small businesses, after property agents slammed the measures as “naïve” and difficult...
Punch Taverns has expressed frustration that its efforts to engage with Liberal Democrat politicians involved in the Government’s consultation on pubco regulation have gone unanswered.
The Liberal Democrats have committed to introducing a right for pub tenants to buy the freehold of their venue if it’s put up for sale at an independently assessed market value.
Business secretary Vince Cable has said statutory regulation governing the relationship between pub companies and their tenants is “necessary” and the trade will “soon hear how [the Government] will take that forward”.
The consultation into the statutory code and adjudicator to manage the pubco-tenant relationship is set to go ahead “shortly”, the Government has confirmed to the Publican’s Morning Advertiser (PMA).
Local support for pubs and brewing is essential if the coalition is to be remembered as a “pro-pub government”, according to All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group chairman, Greg Mulholland MP.
The miscellaneous party Anyone still unclear as to who holds the reins of power within our coalition government need only look as far as the list of...
Three members of David Cameron's new Cabinet signed a pledge to help pubs before the election, it has emerged. Business secretary Vince Cable, chief...
CAMRA has revealed that more than a fifth of newly elected MPs are signed up its charter to help pubs - including Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg....
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Extensively renovated detached public house
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Sizeable refurbished 4-5 bedroom accommodation
Newly created beer garden (125)
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