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The Masons Arms, Teddington (See Page 35) Tel: 020 7281 2786 D ON ON L Feb Vol 33 Mar No 1 2011 The Masons Arms, Teddington (see page 35) Tel: 020 7281 2786 Steak & Ale House SET MENU SALE u 3 course meals for just £16! - or u 3 courses for just just £21 including a 10oz Sirloin or Rib- eye steak - or u A two course meal (starter and main or main and dessert) for just £11 So much choice there is something for ...Six Cask Marque everyone... oh, and Cask Marque accredited real ales accredited ales! always on tap and You can follow us on Facebook for all events and updates and on 40+ malt and blended Twitter@north_nineteen whiskies also now on. Membership discounts on ale available, All proper, fresh sign up at www.northnineteen.co.uk Steakhouse food. In the main bar: Food is served: Tuesday - Live music and open mic 8pm start Wednesday - Poker Tournament 7.30pm start Tuesday-Friday 5-10pm Dart board and board games always available Saturday 12-10pm Prefer a quiet pint? Sunday 12-7pm Our Ale and Whisky Bar is open daily for food, drinks and conversation. We always have six well Cask Marque Please book your Sunday Roast kept real ales and 40+ top quality whiskies. accredited There are no strangers here, just friends you haven’t met yet Editorial London Drinker is published by Mike Hammersley on behalf of the London Branches of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real NDO Ale Limited, and edited by Geoff O N Strawbridge. L Material for publication should preferably be sent by e-mail to [email protected]. Correspondents unable to send letters to the editor electronically may post them to Brian Sheridan at 4, Arundel House, Heathfield Road, Croydon CR0 1EZ. Press releases should be sent by email via [email protected] Changes to pubs or beers should be reported to Capital Pubcheck, 2 Sandtoft Road, London SE7 7LR or by e-mail to [email protected]. For publication in April 2011, please send Campaigning success for sustainable electronic documents to the Editor no later than Wednesday 16th March. communities SUBSCRIPTIONS: £4.00 for mailing of 6 editions or £8.00 for 12 should be sent to ioneering campaigning by testament to the effectiveness of Stan Tompkins, 52 Rabbs Mill House, Chiltern View Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex, PCAMRA’s members has people power and in particular the UB8 2PD (cheques payable to CAMRA persuaded the Government to give tenacity of CAMRA’s members; London). local Councils and communities since the beginning, back in 2002, ADVERTISING: John Galpin Tel: 020 3287 2966. new powers to assist community CAMRA has been a leading Printed by Cliffe Enterprise, pubs. At a pre-Christmas meeting partner in the Local Works Eastbourne, BN22 8TR in Parliament Greg Clark, Minister Coalition who are behind the Views expressed in this publication are those for Decentralisation, launched his Sustainable Communities Act. of their individual authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Editor or the response to ideas put forward by Last month’s announcement Campaign for Real Ale Limited. communities including of course marked the end of the first round CAMRA members and branches. of the Act and also the beginning of Advertise in the next LONDON DRINKER Ideas receiving the green light the next. The Government has Our advertising rates are as follows: from Government include: launched a new call for ideas under Whole page £300 (colour) £240 (mono) l preventing pub companies the Sustainable Communities Act Half page £180 (colour), £135 (mono) selling pubs on the condition so that now is the time for pub Quarter page £95 (colour), £70 (mono) Phone John Galpin now on that no future owner will use goers and beer drinkers to come up 020 3287 2966, Mobile 07508 036835 the building to serve alcohol; with innovative ideas that can be [email protected] l reviewing planning laws to put to Government on how real ale help protect local services and pubs can be helped to thrive. In this issue better; An important change is that people l allowing Councils discretion to will now be able to propose their Wimbledon alarms 4 grant business rate relief to ideas direct to Government and be News round-up 8 valued pubs; guaranteed a reasoned response. l providing a community right Visit http://barrierbusting.communities CAMRA festivals 22 to buy for pubs under threat. .gov.uk/ for more information. Beer styles 28 The 2007 Sustainable Looking ahead to the next Communities Act allowed round of the Act could see Pub history 34 communities to submit ideas to CAMRA succeed in calls for a fair Letters 35 Government via local Councils on deal on beer tax. Excessive Branch diaries 38 how local services like pubs could taxation of valued community be protected. CAMRA members pubs simply does not fit with a Kent Brewery 40 took up this invitation with desire for sustainable Capital Pubcheck 43 enthusiasm and have been well communities. rewarded. The success of the LD Membership form 47 Sustainable Communities Act is a Jonathan Mail The Morden Tavern 53 LocAle pubs 55 Check the Beer Festival Calendar and visit Idle Moments 56 the Travel Pages at Crossword 58 www.londondrinker.org.uk 3 Campaigning Wimbledon pubs under threat wo unwelcome planning appli - munity pub, serving a good, vary - London. Tcations were announced in the ing choice of real ales as alternatives However, dividing off the up - Wimbledon Guardian on Thursday to the Young’s beers of the other per floors of a pub for flats could 16 December, leaving little time to Village pubs, as well as delicious be no more than a ploy to convert comment by an advertised deadline home-cooked food. It has ap - the whole building eventually, a of 5 January. Documents, includ - peared in the Good Beer Guide, year or two later, when it turns out ing representations, relating to both been shortlisted for Branch Pub of that there is ‘no demand’ for a con - can be found on Merton’s planning the Year and now participates in the strained ground floor lock up and website : http://planning.merton.gov.uk/ London CAMRA LocAle scheme. with the new occupants upstairs Northgate/PlanningExplorerAA/Home. Enterprise have given Garry likely to oppose any licence appli - aspx notice that they do not wish to re - cation. Merton’s Unitary Develop - Application 10/P3288 , con - new his current lease, let alone of - ment Plan includes an exemplary cerned the Brewery Tap , on the fer him the freehold, but instead in - Pub Protection Policy (L16) and the High Street in Wimbledon Vil - tend to replace the existing kitchen local CAMRA Branch urged local lage, where Enterprise Inns propose and tenants’ accommodation up - residents to object to an application ‘rear extension and conversion of stairs with self contained flats while that would deprive the Village of ancillary accommodation on first the bar on the ground floor oper - this delightful, historic pub and set and second floors to provide two ates as a vertical drinking establish - a very bad precedent for many oth - residential apartments’. For the last ment aimed at younger drinkers. ers like it. Many have now done so. fifteen years, John and Heather With its resident landlord and his Fewer people have objected to Grover have run the ‘Tap’ as resi - team, the Brewery Tap promotes re - the second application, 10/P3282 , dent tenants, employees of Enter - sponsible drinking. What Enter - concerning the Princess Royal , in prise lessee Garry Mallen, a small prise propose is vandalism and, Abbey Road, South Wimbledon, a multiple operator. During this moreover, they see the develop - homely two bar pub with a large, time it has thrived as a well patro - ment of the Tap as a prototype for enclosed garden, but closed since nised, deservedly popular com - many other of their premises in March 2010 after Enterprise Inns 4 Campaigning had seemingly run it down through a combination of opers who can be encouraged to expect planning per - high rents and restrictive beer ties and then sold it, mission for alternative, typically residential use of pub as non-viable, for potential change of use. The devel - sites. Developers may reasonably liaise with council opment now applied for comprises ‘six flats formed planning officers looking for ever more houses, so that of two three-bedroom and four two-bedroom flats (in the loss of the pub is in some cases a foregone con - a three storey block) and the conversion of the for - clusion. mer public house with ancillary residential accommo - Drinkers can only hope that the Government’s re - dation into a three bedroom house.’ cently introduced Localism Bill will require councils Loyal regulars had been sad to lose this pub which, to give local communities the ability and the oppor - under more enlightened management, had previous - tunity to concert effective action to protect popular ly been in the Good Beer Guide for nineteen consec - pubs from owners and agents who would rather prof - utive years. The comparative successes of the Sultan it from their disposal. and the Trafalgar nearby are testimony to the contin - Geoff Strawbridge uing viability of back-street locals, given good land - Pubs Officer, CAMRA South West London Branch lords and attractive beer ranges. Just because a pub has already closed does not in - Advertise in the next LONDON DRINKER validate Merton’s Pub Protection Policy criteria. In - Our advertising rates are as follows: deed, a few years ago Merton Planning Committee cit - Whole page £300 (colour), £240 (mono) ed the Pub Protection Policy in preventing demolition Half page £180 (colour), £135 (mono); for industrial use of the site of the Prince of Wales in Quarter page £95 (colour), £70 (mono).
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