Rental Proposal

Sorry we've been quiet for some time

Hi everyone, sorry we've been quiet for some time; we have been trying to negotiate a way forward. Essentially, Worthy Developments came up with a proposal for us to rent the downstairs of the pub from them whilst they convert the upstairs to flats and rent them out.  We feel that the best way forward is to buy the pub, though they do not want to sell to us!

The committee considered the proposal and have rejected it and I have sent a rejection today.  They claim that they plan to completely refurbish the pub and find a landlord to run it which would be great, this seems to be dependent upon him getting planning to turn the upper floor into 2, two bedroom, self contained flats.  The permission would involve a partial change of use, i,e the residence upstairs would no longer be ancillary to a pub.
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This worries us as they may open a pub to make it fail so that then they can get full residential planning...  It will be interesting to see what happens; in the meantime, the committee will continue to work behind the scenes to see what other options are open to us.