Wednesday 30 July 2014
The Queensbury and Pub Protection
I see that Save The Queensbury campaign is advocating a pub protection policy to be included in Brent's new local Plan. This may be a good idea, but I don't think it would have had much of an application to the Fairview appeal. Fairview's proposal was to retain the same amount of pub space, and the same amount of community space, as part of their development. That is why it was not cited as a reason for refusal. Of course, the problem of the sheer scale of such a development in the Mapesbury Conservation Area, and without any similarly sized buildings nearby, remains.
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A pub protection policy would have made Fairview think twice about their purchase of 110 Walm Lane. Let's not forget the original application made no mention of a pub or community space, and planners were clearly unaware of the importance of the pub to the community. It was the campaign that led to an alternative space in the revised application.
Granted it will not help The Queensbury.
The lobby for a policy is to stop the same happening again, elsewhere in Brent.
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