Members of Bromsgrove District
Council voted to stop the bulldozers from demolishing the Greyhound in October.
Concerned residents of Rockhill and members of the Redditch & Bromsgrove
branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) gathered at the council’s planning
committee meeting to voice their views over the proposed development.
Many people were concerned that permission
to demolish the pub could be granted without the need of a full planning
application. Representing the developers, Mr. Morris said that the demolition
was necessary to improve the road in the form of a roundabout. However, no such
plans for the construction of a roundabout were available at the meeting.
Redditch & Bromsgrove CAMRA’s
Pub Officer Martin Hancox said: ‘The pub should be saved. It’s a viable community
asset and has been very popular with customers in the past; serving food and supporting
a local darts team.’ Pubs Preservation Officer Cy Day added: ‘I can only say
that the people currently responsible for the Greyhounds have tried to take a
shortcut to demolish this much-loved pub’.
The decision means that a full consultation
must now take place, and the council must also vote on an application to list
the pub as an asset of community value, of which Redditch and Bromsgrove CAMRA submitted
to them in September. Councillor Luke Mallett (pictured rear middle) said that
the committee have made the right decision.
The site of the Greyhound dates
back to the nineteenth century when it was known as an old quarryman’s pub.
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