Agreement to protect rural pubs
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A MOTION to protect village pubs across South Oxfordshire has been approved.
Peter Dragonetti, who represents Whitchurch on the district council, put forward the motion in support of a campaign to revive the former White Lion at Crays Pond, which has been closed for eight years.
The motion said the council’s planning officers should use all legal powers to protect pubs, whether or not they are officially designated as assets of community value.
Councillor Dragonetti hopes this will make it easier for villagers to obtain a compulsory purchase order on the White Lion, which was made a community asset some months ago, if owner Satwinder Sandhu won’t sell or relet it.