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Wroxton Village Web Site
Planning Application for
The North Arms
It was a very well attended meeting in the village hall (Tuesday evening). There was very wide
support for the refurbishment and reopening of the North Arms, Dr Baldwin on behalf of the College
made a definite promise that it will be operated as a pub as well as a restaurant and that bar snacks
will be available in the bar. The operator is likely to be a couple who run two pubs in the Newbury
area. The pub websites are
http://thecastlenewbury.com/
https://www.theredhousepub.com/
They look to be good pubs!
There were a few detail worries expressed.
1.
The extract system from the kitchen could cause noise and odour problems for the houses
adjacent to the kitchen.
2.
The conversion of the barn to a function room with a potential of 30 plus occupants, This raises
concerns of late night noise, music etc.. This unit would will raise the number of covers in the pub
to perhaps 80 an increase of about 4 times of the previous capacity. Is this out of scale with a
village centre pub?
3.
The pub has parking for perhaps 10 cars which after staff parking will leave little room for the
number of customers. The College has said that the College car park may be used by diners, lets
hope they do. We don’t want villagers in Church St. and Main St having increased difficulty in
parking.
The Parish Council have promised to raise these points with Cherwell. They should be easily resolved
with good will on all sides and then at last we can have our pub back!
If you want to make a comment on the planning applications, go to
www.cherwell.gov.uk/viewplanningapp
The White Horse
Spoke to the new owner. It will be reopened as a pub . He is still
considering what it will offer and investigating the significant
repairs that he thinks necessary. He is unable to give any forecast
as to when it will be open but it will be as soon as possible.
© Richard Woollacott unless otherwise credited
Editor Richard Woollacott. Email- editorATwroxton.org..uk (Replace AT with the @ sign to save us spam!)
Wroxton Village Web Site
Planning Application for
The North Arms
It was a very well attended meeting in the village hall (Tuesday
evening). There was very wide support for the refurbishment and
reopening of the North Arms, Dr Baldwin on behalf of the College
made a definite promise that it will be operated as a pub as well as a
restaurant and that bar snacks will be available in the bar. The
operator is likely to be a couple who run two pubs in the Newbury
area. The pub websites are
http://thecastlenewbury.com/
https://www.theredhousepub.com/
They look to be good pubs!
There were a few detail worries expressed.
1.
The extract system from the kitchen could cause noise and odour
problems for the houses adjacent to the kitchen.
2.
The conversion of the barn to a function room with a potential of
30 plus occupants, This raises concerns of late night noise, music
etc.. This unit would will raise the number of covers in the pub to
perhaps 80 an increase of about 4 times of the previous capacity.
Is this out of scale with a village centre pub?
3.
The pub has parking for perhaps 10 cars which after staff parking
will leave little room for the number of customers. The College has
said that the College car park may be used by diners, lets hope
they do. We don’t want villagers in Church St. and Main St having
increased difficulty in parking.
The Parish Council have promised to raise these points with Cherwell.
They should be easily resolved with good will on all sides and then at
last we can have our pub back!
If you want to make a comment on the planning applications, go to
www.cherwell.gov.uk/viewplanningapp
The White Horse
Spoke to the new owner. It will be reopened as a
pub . He is still considering what it will offer and
investigating the significant repairs that he thinks
necessary. He is unable to give any forecast as to
when it will be open but it will be as soon as
possible.