Having read your subsequent post, I think I now understand your question! I think it omitted the word 'not', so it should have read:biscuitman1978 wrote:I don't fully understand your question...Tim Lund wrote:Anyone any ideas on what sort of difference it would make to the commercial rent on that space to have the pub in front? If it was significantly more, then the owner of the retail space - not Purelake, I believe - will not have much incentive to push Purelake to get on with it, and Purelake will have none at all.
Anyone any ideas on what sort of difference it would make to the commercial rent on that space to not have the pub in front?
In your subsequent post, you suggest I have not considered a situation where the pub is not rebuilt (and, implicitly, that somehow the Council gets bored and allows complete demolition).
There's a good reason for that: as the building is in a conservation area and was substantially demolished without conservation area consent, the Council can require that all work undertaken without consent is reversed (more at http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/prof ... eaconsent/ in the section headed 'What Happens If I Carry Out Work Without Consent?').
Given that (a) the Council clearly regard the building as important (many readers of this forum will recall that the Council locally listed the building), and (b) allowing unauthorised demolition to go unpunished would give out the wrong message to other developers, it seems highly unlikely that 'managed decline', as you put it, and certainly not demolition of at least what remains of the original parts of the pub, will be allowed in the long-term.
In any case, as far as I am aware Sainsbury's still wish to take the unit to the rear of the pub. To the best of my knowledge, the only thing stopping them opening their new store is the planning condition which (effectively) requires completion of the pub. Why hang on in some vain hope that the pub might be demolished, forefeiting any rental income, when there is an operator ready, willing and able to move in?