| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The Packhorse and Talbot is to be demolished! | |
| Posted by: | Julian Pavey | |
| Date/Time: | 08/08/14 09:41:00 |
| If there is not enough demand for pubs (and this building does not look particularly promising to be converted into anything else) how should the building be preserved? Well that is the million dollar question. You tackle the point at hand which is what is on the table at the moment. The question of the pub in question not being viable due to lack of demand as a publick house is questionable. Take away the daytime in midweek and i think it does enough trade of an evening and at weekends to be viable,but i don't have the figures to back that up. But it does at all other times look to be busy inside taking away the fact the the George is closed at the moment. I like the look of the building from the outside in its position. I would like to keep it regardless of its use. But i certainly am against a block of flats being errected in that position. Im a fan of modern design to a point but the location has to be a factor. If it is the case that it closes as a pub for one reason or another and sits for years unused and boarded up then obviously i would welcome a change. That could include the building being lost but not as it stands with a short time scale and be replaced by what's on the table even without seeing the design. Taking the Metro Bank and what could have been. Yes it comes down to money and a few banging of heads but the Metro could have been something else that sits perfectly well on that patch with an outside envelope that looks and fits in well and serves the community all year round. I can think of a few minus the fast food and usual metro type suspects. But at the present time we have to look at what is on the table. The building being lost in a short space of time from what i can see and not its line if trade. You certainly cant give up on a building because you had a bad gammon and chips on Sunday afternoon while out on a date. Mind you,if it came to public house toilets id close them all down. Well id remove all the doorhandles anyway. Cmon guys! you know you do? Wash your blooming hands man |