Pub legal question

[Hay Farmer]

Hypothetically, if a pub was 'temporally closed' for a few years, no one living in the pub and the owners not willing to sell, but the building is still a pub and a protected community asset, can they be forced to sell so that it can be re-opened as a pub?

 

[Longneck]

No, but you can make it a community asset so they have to give you first refusal when the do decide to sell it.

Google the ‘Plunket foundation’ they are very helpful with these situations.

 

[spin cycle]

case like in next village....up for sale ludicrous price or rent...then got community asset status.....was soon re let and doing ok ,i think.

wouldn't have thought they could be forced to sell...but i guess you reach a 'mexican stand off' situation.....they can't get pp for change of use...plus have costs to pay....so re let on a doable rent

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Our village pub was designated as a community asset. I'm proud to say I was one of the parish councillors involved.
Just over a year ago our pub became Warwickshire's first community owned pub. Enterprise Inns put it on the market after squeezing several tenants out with high rent. As it was a "community asset" the village had first chance to buy it and succeeded