Agents for the owners told the council that the ACV application will be challenged.
The council accepts the view thee pub may not have been profitable under the current ownership/ management.
However they also the agents that “it may be able to be so under other proprietors or there may be alternative community uses for that building, and this has not been investigated”.
The council view is that they have not been provided with “sufficient evidence / justification that it is not viable or feasible to retain this as a community facility use”. They have asked the agents to provided additional information.