CAMRA

Appeal: Post-war estate’s last remaining pub saved from demolition

12.02.2021

A developer’s plan to demolish a Bristol housing estate’s last remaining pub to make way for seven homes has been blocked by an inspector, who highlighted the building’s architectural value and its...

Appeal: Developer criticised over historic East London pub conversion

22.01.2021

Matt Moody

After a two-day public inquiry, an inspector has upheld enforcement action against a developer who converted The Antelope, a 19th-century pub in Leyton, into flats, criticising the ‘cramped’ flats and the...

News report: Last orders - A third of venues set to close

14.07.2020

Huw Morris

Coronavirus has cast an existential shadow over the UK’s hospitality sector. Huw Morris surveys the rocky road ahead

Appeals round-up: CAMRA evidence counts against pub’s illegal conversion; Housing allowed next to motorway despite air quality concerns

07.02.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 1 February-7 February, 2020

Appeal: CAMRA evidence counts against pub’s illegal conversion

06.02.2020

Matt Moody

A couple who illegally converted a Herefordshire pub into a home in 2012 have again been refused retrospective permission, after representations from CAMRA and the local parish council at a public hearing...

Pub - Appeal against a refusal by Herefordshire Council for change of use of the Newtown Inn in Lower Eggleton to a dwelling house

Neighbourhood Planning Bill: Government proposes own amendment to protect pubs

27.03.2017

Laura Edgar

Communities secretary Sajid Javid has tabled an amendment to the Neighbourhood Planning Bill that removes permitted development rights from pubs.

Neighbourhood Planning Bill: Lords vote to protect pubs

01.03.2017

Laura Edgar

The House of Lords has voted to amend the Neighbourhood Planning Bill so it removes permitted development rights relating to the change of use or demolition of pubs.