Planning minister Bob Neill has told Parliament that the Government is looking at greater protection for pubs and other community facilities from the threat of demolition.
He told the Commons that ministers were prepared to look carefully at “whether there is some means by which we can, perhaps in the context of the community right to buy, extend planning control to the demolition of community assets”.
His comments came at the end of debate on pub planning policy during which Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland called for a moratorium of six months before any permanent change of use or demolition of a pub can take place.
Read the Commons Hansard report (16 February 2011, column 299WH).
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