Saturday, 12 March 2011

Villagers fight new bid to turn General Elliot pub into a house (From Oxford Mail)

Villagers fight new bid to turn General Elliot pub into a house (From Oxford Mail)

VILLAGERS have pledged to save a former award-winning pub from another bid to turn it into a house.

South Hinksey Parish Council this week agreed to oppose plans for The General Elliot, which closed in 2009, after listening to villagers.

Vale of White Horse District Council threw out a previous bid to turn it into a house in June 2010.

And parish councillors urged the district council to throw out a new bid at a village meeting on Monday.

The pub, which remains boarded up, was the last one in the village.

Parish council chairman Maggie Rawcliffe said: “We are still fighting.

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