| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Justine's petition | |
| Posted by: | John Cameron | |
| Date/Time: | 13/08/19 09:35:00 |
| @ Caroline The ACV strategy has merit, but it cannot be simply achieved by a ‘petition’. What Greening is suggesting make no sense. A community group needs to bring the application forward, in the same way that the Friends of Wandsworth Park / Sea Scouts did with their successful applications. A random petition cannot achieve ACV status, it is meaningless. It may be the Greening know this and simply hasn’t communicated her strategy well. But what she says is simply wrong and it is misleading. A successful ACV application may lead to a community group acquiring the pub (although I regard this as very unlikely, for lots of reasons). It would take a lot of time and effort, but many pubs have been successfully acquired and subsequently run by their new community owners. Alternatively a successful ACV application would need to be considered by the planning department if there was a change of use application, as it would be considered material. So ACV throws a bit of a spanner in any planning application for a period, but not forever. I suggested the ACV route as the first post seemed to indicate there was an some enthusiasm for a community bid. However I haven’t seen anything to indicate that is actually the case, ie a community bid group coming forward. Greening would not be suggesting what she is (which is NOT a community bid) if there was a group out there. Unless of course a group are working away in secret and have not publicised themselves, which seems unlikely. I have a good understanding of ACV’s and how they work - but in essence for this to have legs it needs a ‘proper’ group, with a sound plan, funding and so on. A petition from Greening doesn’t amount to a row beans without a group standing behind it. Wandsworth need a proper worked up ACV application. |