On 24/10/06, Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Captain Beeky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >On 23, Oct 2006, at 17:14, Adrian Stott wrote
> >
> >> Or have I missed something?
> >
> >AIUI, FBS was on a standard commercial lease on its old site. Under
> such, Tony would have known from the beginning exactly when the lease
> was going to end, and that BW had the right not to renew if it needed
> the site for something else. Also, there are usually statutory notice
> periods required if the landlord wishes not to renew. Moreover, I
> believe (but am not certain) that BW was actually talking with Tony
> well in advance of the statutory notice date. Finally, BW made
> arrangements with Tony for him to relocate nearby.
>
> All seems reasonable to me.
It was not at all reasonable. In fact, the way Tony was treated was entirely
unreasonable. He had been on a recurring lease since, I think, 1962 and had
no reason for thinking that it wouldn't be renewed annually the way it
always had been. Talk to him ahead of the date? They hardly wanted to talk
to him at all and would have done the whole thing by letter if he hadn't
demanded otherwise. . And as for 'making arrangements' with him to relocate
nearby, I am left speechless. They were constrained into making an
accommodation with him when they would rather not have done simply because
Tony owned freehold land critical to the site access. He was treated
shabbily. He had built up the boatyard and the pub at the bottom of the
locks from nothing, only to be kicked out in favour of the corporate
partnership with Scottish and Newcastle. That's why he got the licence for
his own pub opposite: you got the sense the magistrates at the licensing
hearing were so incensed by the way he'd been treated, and the way BW had
treated the site, getting Tony off it as soon as possible and the leaving it
derelict for more than a year, that it was almost Market Harborough's
revenge on them.
Incidentally for anyone going down Foxton seeking an alternative to plastic
corporatism, I'd recommend the new pub. As idiosyncratic as you'd expect
from Tony, and not all will like it. But a genuine public housereflecting
the character of the landlord.
Steve
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