>> >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.
>
>Adrian
>
>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
Thanks for putting the other view Steve. So many see BW through rose coloured
spectacles saying they have changed. The trouble is I have been hearing that
they have changed for the last 10 years at least- and they haven't.
Sue nb Nackered Navvy
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