Pub closures Options

[James_Trinder]

In the news today the Rising Sun at Stockcross is now closed for good, which comes not too long after the Lord Lyon in Stockcross also shut its doors for the last time to be turned into flats.

So I guess the question is whether pubs (especially village pubs) are now viable these days and whether it is worth saving them or whether we should just mingle in coffee shops and just buy cheap alcohol from supermarkets instead?

Any thoughts?

[Turin Machine]

The problem is and has been the demise of 'popping out for a pint' in the car, most country pubs survived on wet sales and untill the late 80's or early 90's that was fine, people would drive out, imbibe, and drive home again, even after drink driving was cracked down on people would still do it. What changed was that drink driving became socially unacceptable, after that pubs needed to rely on the food trade.

Once everyone else's doing good it became more difficult to compete, that and the advent of cheap alcohol from the supermarket has pretty much killed out of town pubs, and with increases in rateable values and rents even town pubs are having a grim time. The future is grim.