Six Pubs Have Closed Every Week during Lockdowns
The reopening of indoor hospitality earlier this week came too late for many businesses as data reveals that six pubs have closed every week during Government-imposed lockdowns. Most have either been demolished or converted into homes and offices. The MailOnline has the story.
Figures released today showed 384 pubs have closed permanently during the national and tiered local restrictions over the past 14 months.
The number of locals is down by one per cent from 40,886 to 40,502, according to research by consultants Altus Group…
West Northamptonshire Council granted permission to turn The Romany in Kingsley, Northampton, into 11 flats after its closure during the first lockdown last year.
And The Majors Arms in Widnes, Cheshire, was sold last October, with its new owners requesting permission from Halton Council to turn it into a shop.
The Crobar in Soho, central London, previously said it would be unable to reopen after struggling to pay rent during the pandemic, but is now planning to resume business at a new venue after fundraising over £100,000.
The study found more pubs were lost in the South East than other parts of the U.K., with 62 demolished or converted for alternative use during the pandemic.
The West Midlands, Wales, North West and East of England each saw more than 40 pubs closed during the same 14-month spell.
Pubs that disappeared have either been demolished or converted into other uses such as homes or offices, said Altus.
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“From the towns all Inns have been driven: from the villages most…. Change your hearts or you will lose your Inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your Inns drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.”
With WFH apparently intended as the norm, there will be lots of vacant offices that can be turned into oubs.
Until pubs become hospitable places of relaxation, refreshment, conversation and sociability they’ll have to keep closing.
An overpriced pint served by someone in a muzzle, paid for using a smartphone app after booking a time slot and being obliged to leave contact and medical details, then being told not to communicate with anyone at other tables and after all that, being tempted to piss on the floor while at your table rather than wearing a staff-provided muzzle if you want to stand up and go to the bog sounds, to me, like a crap night out.
ABSOLUTELY!
Couldn’t agree more. I have been saying this for a long time, any pub that wants my business will have to do its part. I’m ready and willing, now they have to entice me back. The big breweries have to put their heads above the parapet and tell the Government that they won’t follow any dumb rules, particularly any kind of ‘passports’. If they aren’t willing to do that then they’ll get what they deserve.
It was noted in another LS article today that ministers are known to be desperately trying to ram through political agendas before so-called ‘freedom day’.
One of their agendas for a long time has been to kill off the British pub in their crusade to remove our culture. I’m amazed so many have survived this long through constant crippling restrictions on their business. Another year of totalitarianism and they’ll be gone, and I for one will sorely miss them.
To enjoy a pub does not make you a hedonist or a moron. Pubs are rather like the frogs in a pond. Their number indicates the health of the environment. In this case their decline points towards the insidious Puritan/prohibitionist cliche that holds sway at the moment. Carrie wishes we all cycle to our local ‘plant based’ hostelry for a swift wheatgrass juice.
Yes pubs have been closing down for ages now, this might be an acceleration, hard to tell. Same for many shops, they were closing down for ages but now faster