| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Objection to Benches | |
| Posted by: | John Cameron | |
| Date/Time: | 05/04/18 18:04:00 |
| @ Tina Why is it inappropriate to call the SPENCER’S benches a beer garden. Would you prefer a beer common? The benches by any definition, belong to the Spencer who pay a rent for the right to place them on the common. The Spencer does so for one reason, to make money from the increased sales produced by the customers on the benches. So the Spencer own the benches, have an agreement for the benches, derive additional income from the benches and make a significant profit from that income, (as they don’t pay rates or have any fixed costs (ie utilities) to dent their margin. To call the benches a beer garden or a beer common is entirely appropriate. The space has been appropriated by virtue of the benches and the agreement, which was GRANTED, by they WPCC. You agree that the open space is reduced, as it very clearly is. The benches elsewhere on the commons are the property of the WPCC, and are not a commercial beer garden. The WPCC have granted an exclusive agreement to a pub, which is no different to a non exclusive agreement. You agree that one is ‘illegal” but that the other one isn’t. Both pubs, both benches, both commercial agreements, both illegal |