Mr A Perry wrote last week about the Horseshoe Inn at Brooms Green. His errors should be corrected.
He says that the pub is not viable, as shown by no one being prepared to buy it. But, this was because it was priced as a private house, not as a pub (a price difference of about £100,000). There were pub buyers, but at pub prices. Had it been properly priced, it could have been sold as a pub.
The village hall cannot replace the pub. The way a village hall is used is quite different to the ad hoc usage of a pub.
Mr Perry suggests that Brooms Green is flogging a dead horse. The Horseshoe is not currently functioning as a pub, but its customers are determined to get it back. We are not prepared to lose our pub to fund a speculator's "planning gain".
Gordon Kirk, Greenway House, Dymock.
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