IN THIS ISSUE • WINCHESTER GATE VOTED PUB OF THE YEAR • WINTERFEST • ASSETS OF COMMUNITY VA LUE • SAVE THE GAINSBOROUGH ARMS 10% OFF REAL ALES for all CAMRA members FOOD SERVED ALL DAY (with a valid card) Good English pub food is freshly cooked to order using produce sourced from local suppliers. Sunday roasts are a speciality View our menu online at www.thewigandquill.com • QUIZ NIGHT ON SUNDAY • Come and enjoy our attractive, secluded courtyard garden and roaring log fires. We are a traditional pub and welcome children, families 1 New Street, Salisbury and dogs Wiltshire, SP1 2PH t. 01722 335 665 LIVE MUSIC AT e. [email protected] WEEKENDS www.thewigandquill.com Including jazz, blues and A PUB acoustic. 4 REAL CASK ALES Wadworth’s - 6X, Swordfish, Horizon, Henry’s IPA & 1 GUEST ALE 2 - March - May 2016 ury & South sb W li i a lt SALISBURY & S s SOUTH WILTSHIRE FROM THE CONTACTS CHAIRMAN - DEREK BLACKSHAW EDITOR e: [email protected], t: 07770 767455 SECRETARY - ANDREW HESKETH elcome to the spring edition of our new look e: [email protected] Barrel Organ magazine. A quick thanks to all SOCIAL SECRETARY - PAUL SIMPSON e: [email protected] those who have submitted articles and helped distribute the magazine, we would not be here without MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY - PETE MATTHEWS W e: [email protected] our dedicated volunteers. As readers, let us know what www.salisburycamra.org.uk you think of the magazine and its content and I look forward to any suggestions and ideas for future articles. 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Map data ©Google 2015 March - May 2016 - 3 SALISBURY ASSETS OF COMMUNITY VALUE List Your Local November 2015 the branch f you love your local pub and want to protect it from became aware that there demolition or change of use, make sure to list it with was a strong possibility your local Council as an Assets of Community Value of the premises being I(ACV). You can nominate as a CAMRA Branch, as an sold with a view to being informal group of 21 local people, or as a Parish Council. converted to housing. e In this article we provide an update on our local ACV application pointed Salisbury and South Wilts CAMRA branch campaign out that this was the only to list local pubs as ACVs. Working closely with local pub left in the Lower Bemerton area and if it were to councillors, Salisbury branch has been able to secure close or be redeveloped an important community asset the status of Asset of Community Value for 2 pubs in would be lost that would be unlikely to be able to be Wilton Road Salisbury: replicated in the vicinity. e Village Freehouse in Wilton Road close to With these two applications having been successful Salisbury railway station has been a favourite with the branch have had an invitation from Salisbury City CAMRA members for many years and has featured Council to work with them to identify and present an consistently in the good beer guide. Unique amongst argument for further premises to be designated as Assets licensed premises in Salisbury it is the only one that of Community Value. If you think your local should be guarantees a traditional dark beer or mild will always on the asset register do get in touch with us and help us be on pump. It has been a pub for over 150 years and put the case together. has been voted Salisbury and South Wilts’s pub of the For more information from CAMRA on ACVs see year no less than 3 times, last in 2014. e Village www.camra.org.uk/list-your-local has also been awarded LocAle status as it always has on at least one beer from a local brewery. is practice of promoting the local economy was one of the points SAVE THE made in the ACV application. Also identi ed was the fact that the pub is home to both football and cricket GAINSBOROUGH teams as well as more traditional pub sports such as cribbage. T h e ARMS Halfway House, at the A New Campaign other end of Wilton Road in he Gainsborough Arms, Milborne Port had Salisbury, has been a public house and trading since 1866 and had a number is a place for the community to meet, greet, eat, of changes of drinkT and play. tenants and In December 2013 New River Retail acquired 202 managers Marston’s pubs for £90 million with the intention of in the last converting the majority of the ‘assets’ to convenience stores. e Halfway House, Salisbury few years. In As part of the deal Marston’s entered into a minimum 4 - March - May 2016 4 year lease-back during which time it will operate the Portfolio as public houses. e Gainsborough Arms formed part of this sale. In January 2015 a change of use application was submitted to South Somerset District Council to demolish the pub and replace it with a Class A1 convenience store for the Co-op. is prompted a ood of individual objections submitted to the council from local residents and others (including Heart of Wessex CAMRA) and a petition was organised locally. is had over 50 pages of signatures from people who wished to save the pub. A local group (Gainsborough Community Interest Group) successfully listed the pub as an Asset of Community for the pub and we will keep Value and the listing will remain until March 2020. monitoring change of use e current status of the pub is that all is going applications. well at present. e Landlady, Sandie, has managed to For more information negotiate to manage the pub directly through Marston’s from CAMRA re ACV for 2 years (From end Nov 2015) with a possible 5 year please visit www.camra.org. extension after that. We wish her and the pub well. uk/list-your-local e building is still owned by New River Retail and Should you be the 4 year minimum lease runs out 2017 / 2018 so it is interested in visiting the important to consider the options for what may happen pub it is o the A30 in in the future should Marston’s not renew their lease Gainsborough Road at the western end agreement.. e ACV will provide additional protection of Milborne Port. March - May 2016 - 5 THE DUKE OF YORK - A TRADITIONAL PUB - A traditional locals’ Open Every Evening: pub offering 5 ever Monday - Friday changing, reasonably from 6:30pm, priced cask ales and Saturday from 4pm traditional cider & Sunday from 1pm The Duke of York | 34 York Road | Salisbury | SP2 7AS 6 - March - May 2016 WINCHESTER GATE VOTED PUB OF THE YEAR Salisbury & South Wilts Branch he members of Salisbury and South Wilts branch of CAMRA have, and not for the rst time, voted the Winchester Gate on Rampart Road Salisbury as their town pub of the year.