Work to start on controversial Wetherspoon plan in Lymington (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Work to start on controversial Wetherspoon plan in Lymington
1:08pm Monday 3rd September 2012 in News
Work on plans for a controversial cut-price pub in one of Hampshire’s most exclusive towns gets underway soon.
The J D Wetherspoon chain is preparing to turn a former home furnishings store in Lymington into The Six Bells, which is expected to create about 40 jobs.
Work is due to begin on September 10 and will take three months, which means the watering hole will open in time for Christmas.
Planning permission for the two-storey development was granted almost a year ago after a long and bitter battle that split the community.
Wetherspoon’s first application to convert the Palfrey & Kemp store in St Thomas’s Street sparked 200 letters of protest and a 240-name petition.
Comments(15)
bornINpoole69
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1:32pm Mon 3 Sep 12
pete woodley wrote:Arms folded frowning into camera, Pete?
I bet local "celebrity boy" b smith,will object and make sure his name and picture gets in paper.must not upset the "gentry".
pete woodley
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2:03pm Mon 3 Sep 12
bornINpoole69
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2:06pm Mon 3 Sep 12
pete woodley wrote:I expect left over right.
Is it right over left or left over right ?.
I was dissapointed to see the attacking comments about your posts on other pages pete. It is not warranted
pete woodley
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2:24pm Mon 3 Sep 12
bornINpoole69
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3:13pm Mon 3 Sep 12
pete woodley wrote:I had worked out from other posts that you were not in good health and you have disclosed your age before - both facts dictate a further degree of courtesy should be shown to you which is why I get anoyed when people pick on you.
So was i ,but used to it,i am supposed to have lived a miserable life when in fact i have done more in my life than most,and still try to keep going, even karaoke,most of the comments come from those who do not know anything about me,some from those i know too much about ?.Those that threaten me,have got to be pathetic, to have a go at someone nearly 78 and in poor health,but that shows the type they are.I certainly have never been scared of facing them.I am lucky to have a good wife,and son,and some really great friends.
You may have noticed that I have a strange sense of humour in some of my posts and I do look forward to seeing others commenting that they find them amusing too.
Keep on Posting Pete!
pete woodley
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3:50pm Mon 3 Sep 12
hammer
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4:02pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Humf
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4:23pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Will a Lymington high street pub really do enough business to sustain 40 jobs ?
With regards to the planning being approved, when the news came that Wetherspoons were going to appeal against the rejection I commented - big business has the money and the time to appeal, appeal, appeal until it gets through.
As with Tescos and it's "smash all competition approach", I just feel sorry for the local pubs. Wetherpsoons do provide good-priced beer but at what cost to other pubs that can't negotiate with the breweries to get a lower price ?
pete woodley
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4:42pm Mon 3 Sep 12
oons do a good meal as well.
arthur1948
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10:06pm Mon 3 Sep 12
bosco1
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10:09pm Mon 3 Sep 12
BIGTONE
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3:25am Tue 4 Sep 12
Lord Spring
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7:58am Tue 4 Sep 12
Humf wrote:40 jobs I wish
I know the Echo takes a bit of battering over facts and figures but is this really going to create 40 jobs ?
Will a Lymington high street pub really do enough business to sustain 40 jobs ?
With regards to the planning being approved, when the news came that Wetherspoons were going to appeal against the rejection I commented - big business has the money and the time to appeal, appeal, appeal until it gets through.
As with Tescos and it's "smash all competition approach", I just feel sorry for the local pubs. Wetherpsoons do provide good-priced beer but at what cost to other pubs that can't negotiate with the breweries to get a lower price ?
. On some occasions it is like the Marie Celeste behind the counter at some of their places.
Just a point, not complaining better than paying £3.50 for a pint
The Cerne Giant
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1:08pm Tue 4 Sep 12
Our Village pub was seriously suffering from "bums on seat"
However 'Spoon's step in and with a major tart up - our village pub is now tantamount to a busy bee hive
BTW - Like the citizens of the lovely township of Lymington
My village - is a tad "snobish" and had a token outrage
. . . but it was stamped upon by clear thinkers
BTW - I recommend 'Spoons Curry nights
pete woodley says...
1:22pm Mon 3 Sep 12