Monday, March 08, 2010

Pub Development Plan Halted After BBC Investigation

Plans by the UK's biggest pub company to convert a community pub into a housing development have been halted following a BBC investigation.

Programme makers uncovered a series of inaccuracies and misleading claims in Punch Taverns' planning application for the Cross Guns pub in Birmingham.
The application, which has attracted hundreds of objections, had been due to go before the local housing committee.

Punch said its application had been made in "good faith".
But once details of the investigation by BBC Inside Out West Midlands emerged, Birmingham City Council immediately halted the application whilst the claims could be investigated.

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