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Restrictive covenants are destroying our pubs.

Should pubcos be allowed to put covenants when selling village pubs.  

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  1. 1. Should pubcos be allowed to put covenants when selling village pubs.

    • No. If someone want to keep open a village pub then they should be allowed to do so
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    • Yes. The pubcos should be allowed to operate as they see fit
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Restrictive covenants are destroying our pubs.

 

Pub companies who charge exorbitant rents are finding some pubs simply cannot be let out. Despite the fact that people want to buy these pubs, some of which might be the last pub in a village, they are prevented from doing so.

 

Large numbers of these failed pubs are being sold by the pubcos with restrictive covenants preventive their use for sale of alcohol. As a result perfectly viable pubs are forced to close and are sold for other uses.

 

Surely this should be stopped.

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The brewing industry seems to be very keen to destroy its own market. IMO breweries should *not* be allowed to own pubs

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I agree- one of the main problems with the pub industries are the brewers themselves!!

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there should be measures in place to protect the hubs of our communities

 

the damage which can be done by taking vital meeting places away from a community is immeasurable

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It's none of our business what a private company chooses to do with its assets.

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it is when it's been the village pub for 400 years, and your whole family have been celebrating their births and deaths there for that time

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it is when it's been the village pub for 400 years, and your whole family have been celebrating their births and deaths there for that time

 

Ah but how often do you actually go in it? Most people who protest at a pub closure probably only go 2 or 3 times a year and would sooner buy a crate of Stella from Tesco and get drunk at home. As no company would be mad enough to shut down a pub that's busy and making money, the only way to keep it open is to use it!

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It's none of our business what a private company chooses to do with its assets.

 

Most of the larger breweries are listed on some sort of stock exchange, so even with taking the "business is more important than people" approach, you could buy a share, go to the AGM and ask them to have some social responsibility. On the other hand, living in an apparently-free country, we have the right to protest - whether that means writing to the company in question, marching around their head office, or discussing it in an open forum - these are all options available to us

Edited by splodgeyAl

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Ah but how often do you actually go in it? Most people who protest at a pub closure probably only go 2 or 3 times a year and would sooner buy a crate of Stella from Tesco and get drunk at home. As no company would be mad enough to shut down a pub that's busy and making money, the only way to keep it open is to use it!

 

Do you work in a pub? The tied pubs that I've worked in, every time they managed to up their sales, the brewery would up the rent, leaving the landlord no better off financially, but with considerably greater workload.

 

Not the actions of a sustainable industry, IMO

Edited by splodgeyAl
spellin'

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This is what's happened in Bamford.

 

The Derwent's unlikely to open again, and the Anglers is rubbish and needs a fortune spending on it.

 

As you say, these pubs are often the centre of the community and I believe village life suffers as a result of them closing.

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£4 a pint is what's killing off the pubs.

 

Not all chains are bad. Robinsons and Jennings are two family brewers with strings of very successful pubs and happy managers.

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£4 a pint is what's killing off the pubs.

 

Not all chains are bad. Robinsons and Jennings are two family brewers with strings of very successful pubs and happy managers.

 

The crazy price of beer in many pubs is often caused by the brewery charging the pubs more per pint than supermarkets charge retail

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