| Topic: | Re:What is the Putney Society doing? | |
| Posted by: | Jonathan Callaway | |
| Date/Time: | 06/09/19 21:46:00 |
| I can confirm the Putney Society discussed the Telegraph pub at its last Exec meeting, following an earlier discussion at a Buildings Panel meeting. We looked specifically at whether we should apply to the Council to have the pub designated an ACV. We have decided not to make such an application. An ACV was introduced to allow interested local community groups to designate, take over and run “assets”; having purchased them at the market price. Clearly this is a major commitment, even to get the initial listing, and we felt the Society is nowhere close to being sufficiently resourced or even sufficiently committed to attempt this for the Telegraph. The Telegraph is already on the list of pubs that the council have excluded from “Article 4” redevelopment. Any redevelopment will therefore require a full planning application which we will scrutinise, as we would any major or contentious application, should it be forthcoming. It is not clear to us that the ACV designation would be of benefit during this planning process unless a community group was in a position to take up the “first refusal” right with the vendor and run the pub. There are no signs of such a group emerging and the Society has not received a single approach, either from members or non-members, to make an ACV application or otherwise involve itself in the issue. |