Country pub.

[Mudgie]

Seems like a jolly good idea.

Because a pub gone from the Shropshire End of Haughton would still leave one at the Bell End ?

 

[Thehooperman]

Because a pub gone from the Shropshire End of Haughton would still leave one at the Bell End ?

No the Bellends are in the Butler's at the north end of Gaolgate Street

 

[Thehooperman]

Seems like a jolly good idea.

Not really because Haughton is already overpopulated and if those residing there used their local pubs once a month or more the pubs wouldn't be struggling.

 

[proactive]

Not really because Haughton is already overpopulated and if those residing there used their local pubs once a month or more the pubs wouldn't be struggling.

I was thinking from the point of view of the pub owners.

Anyway if the good folk of Haughton really needed two pubs, they would have used them and this one wouldn't have had very little trade.

Use it or lose it.

 

[Theresa Green]

All pubs are doomed

Domed pubs are even more doomed

Domed pubs on The Med are doomed still further

Domed pubs on The Med with a Still are still doomed but so what, how often are you going to be going

There

 

[Mudgie]

I was thinking from the point of view of the pub owners.

Anyway if the good folk of Haughton really needed two pubs, they would have used them and this one wouldn't have had very little trade.

Use it or lose it.

But the right pub owner could have made a success of the Shropshire Inn.
Just as Alan Turner did for decades at the Bell.

 

[proactive]

But the right pub owner could have made a success of the Shropshire Inn.
Just as Alan Turner did for decades at the Bell.

But this pub owner clearly now wants to retire and turn a pub that is losing them money into a home for themselves and an income by renting the other bungalow.

As I said before, if the locals had cared that much about having a local, they'd have used it. They didn't so the owner has decided to secure their own future.

Fair play.

 

[littleme]

But this pub owner clearly now wants to retire and turn a pub that is losing them money into a home for themselves and an income by renting the other bungalow.

As I said before, if the locals had cared that much about having a local, they'd have used it. They didn't so the owner has decided to secure their own future.

Fair play.

Well said.

 

[EasMid]

Haughton residents can’t afford to visit their local pubs. They’re still paying off last year’s electric bill for all those lights they had on their front gardens trying to outdo the neighbours at Christmas.

 

[Mudgie]

But this pub owner clearly now wants to retire and turn a pub that is losing them money into a home for themselves and an income by renting the other bungalow.

As I said before, if the locals had cared that much about having a local, they'd have used it. They didn't so the owner has decided to secure their own future.

Fair play.

But it's not just their house, it's a PUBLIC house for he public's use.
That's why an indication that a genuine attempt to sell it as a pub has been made should be provided with the application for planning permission for change of use or demolition.
There's many a failing badly run pub that's thrived under new keen owners who know what they're doing. And many a pub that's been run down intentionally - stop doing meals, reduce hours, etc., an ever decreasing circle.

 

[Theresa Green]

The Star at Cop Mere

Anyone visited this year?

Any good for a beer?

Anyone here?

 

[Glam]

The Star at Cop Mere

Anyone visited this year?

Any good for a beer?

Anyone here?

Yes, yes and yes

 

[Lucy]

Living very close to Haughton I know The Bell is well used and even more so since they had new landlords. There isn't trade for 2 pubs in small villages, whether you want there to be or not.

 

[Thehooperman]

Living very close to Haughton I know The Bell is well used and even more so since they had new landlords. There isn't trade for 2 pubs in small villages, whether you want there to be or not.

There used to be enough trade for the two pubs when I was growing up in Haughton and the village is probably five times the size it was then.

I know people don't go out as much these days but I would expect that it would be possible to sustain two pubs if they were run properly and didn't overcharge to what would be a relatively "captive" customer base.

 

[Lucy]

People used to drive out to country pubs and drive home drunk though too...

 

[tek-monkey]

I always got the impression that this particular pub was trying to aim too much at people eating, but thats not what you necessarily want from your village local.

 

[Mudgie]

Living very close to Haughton I know The Bell is well used and even more so since they had new landlords. There isn't trade for 2 pubs in small villages, whether you want there to be or not.

Alnwick ( where I stayed last month ) - population 8430 - twenty pubs.
Haughton - population 4540 - only two pubs ?

 

[Mudgie]

People used to drive out to country pubs and drive home drunk though too...

But it's one of a small minority of pubs that has a bus service into the evening.
And it has been selling soft drinks as well as alcoholic ones for as long as I can remember.

 

[Mudgie]

I always got the impression that this particular pub was trying to aim too much at people eating, but thats not what you necessarily want from your village local.

Yes, and an AA rosette suggests that it's fine dining rather than the microwaved ready meals we might expect in a high street barn.
But it's not going to get passing trade from the busy A518 when it doesn't look to passers by like a pub. Brick coloured cladding, rather than the white it was, blends into the background and what little signage it has is obscure being white on a pale greyish-green background.

 

[proactive]

But it's not just their house, it's a PUBLIC house for he public's use.
That's why an indication that a genuine attempt to sell it as a pub has been made should be provided with the application for planning permission for change of use or demolition.
There's many a failing badly run pub that's thrived under new keen owners who know what they're doing. And many a pub that's been run down intentionally - stop doing meals, reduce hours, etc., an ever decreasing circle.

But, but, but.

Their property, their choice.

It's only a pub, not life and death.