Worry at plans to demolish Bramcote pub
PLANS to demolish a pub and build a nursing home will be "a real loss to the community", say campaigners.
The Rose Grower in Sandringham Drive, Bramcote Hills, was sold by Greene King to Savace Ltd in July and closed.
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The Rose Grower pub
Now the company has submitted plans to Broxtowe Borough Council to build a nursing home, with 32 bedrooms and ten parking spaces.
Doreen Smalley, from the Lows Estate Residents' Association, said: "If that pub goes it will be the end of an era. There is a lot of people objecting.
"It will be a loss for the community. It was used for councillors' meetings, the association meetings. We never had trouble there. It was a family pub where you could meet friends."
It is believed the nearest pub is now The Nurseryman, in Derby Road, about half a mile away from the Rose Grower.
Broxtowe Borough councillor for Bramcote, David Watts, said: "I'm concerned about the lack of facilities, it's a very large estate that will have no community facilities at all. I'm very worried about the loss of the pub. It's valued in the area. We used to have our meetings there, it was a popular pub."
Savace Ltd said the site was detrimental to the area because there is little greenery and landscaping, and a big car park. It said a nursing and care home will serve the community, "as well as removing noise and other undesirable issues inherent with a public house".
Andrew Ludlow, secretary of Nottingham Campaign For Real Ale, said many pubs outside the city centre were struggling. He said: "It's to the detriment of the community. You end up where the only pubs surviving are the major ones in city centres."
Bramcote councillor Stan Heptinstall, of Broxtowe Borough Council, said: "It's important it's used, the last thing we want is a closed up building, we want to put it to a good use, having a nursing home in close proximity could be a good thing."
delia.monk@nottinghameveningpost.co.uk
4 Comments
by I Grew Up In Bramcote Hills, East Sussex
Monday, November 24 2008, 12:18PM
“Back in the 1960's the Bramcote Hills Community Association actively opposed planning permission and the granting of a licence for a this pub. Indeed it is well documented on their website (bramcotehills.com) that it was the very threat of this pub that brought the Community Organisation into being.
Since then the pub has established itself as a valuable amenity for the local community and not the terrible den of iniquity that was feared. Indeed members of Broxtowe Council and of the Community Association itself have found it to be a useful meeting place.
Today's members of that organisation should be as active now as their predecessors were in earlier years. This time they should take up the challenge and oppose the Rose Grower's demise. Unfortunately that doesn't look likely to happen however, since I emailed the chairman a couple of months ago and have received no reply. Shame.
Unless there is strong local support to maintain a public house on this site the Council will allow "change of use" and the amenity will be lost for good.
Come on BHCA - show us the teeth that your predecessors had and fight to keep the Rose Grower as a local pub.”
by Have a go Hero, Nottingham
Saturday, November 15 2008, 9:05PM
“Sue Downes can I ask you a question, do you use the pub.
I was a regular in there for years and it was well run, clean and friendly
Id hate to see it go and I only drink soft drinks.
But you can blame the Govenment for the Anti Smoking and High Taxation on most Pub Closures today.
So theres my bit for you.
Oh by the way Im LIB DEM now after years of being mislead and lied to by ther Labour Pty”
by Sue Downes, Bramcote
Saturday, November 15 2008, 2:20PM
“The local LibDems have obstructed all proposed eating houses and drinking places; if they aim to keep this public house, just because they have meetings there, this will be more evidence of the hypocrisy endemic to their party.”
by Barry, Vic Centre
Saturday, November 15 2008, 10:43AM
“Set up a bar and in the new nursing home selling Mansfield Mild and pea soup, everyone's happy then.”