Crooked Pub

[Stivino]

BBC News - Crooked House owners' links to previous major fire

Crooked House owners' links to previous major fire

A huge fire broke out at a Buckinghamshire landfill site five years before the Black Country blaze.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Legendary but not profitable as the pub chain sold it.

Blup

That may or may not have been the case. I believe it sold for around £600k+, so not exactly a giveaway.

The sellers and buyers knew it was valuable as a going concern, and presumably the money-grabbing pub chain that did own it would have already looked at redevelopment and had worked out it wasn't possible legally. But they sold to buyers who didn't bother with the rules.

 

[blup]

That may or may not have been the case. I believe it sold for around £600k+, so not exactly a giveaway.

The sellers and buyers knew it was valuable as a going concern, and presumably the money-grabbing pub chain that did own it would have already looked at redevelopment and had worked out it wasn't possible legally. But they sold to buyers who didn't bother with the rules.

The price would have reflected the capitalised income stream but also the undoubted structural issues.

Blup

 

[Mottie]

Two arrests made.

Crooked House: Arson arrests in pub fire probe

Two men are in police custody on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Brigadier]

Two arrests made.

Crooked House: Arson arrests in pub fire probe

Two men are in police custody on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.

www.bbc.co.uk

Probably a couple of no-mark patsies, while the smug string-pullers crack on in their filtered and botoxed lives.....

With luck though, theirs might run dry

 

[Mottie]

Crooked House: Owners of wonky pub ordered to rebuild

An enforcement order requires the building to be built back to what it was prior to the fire.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[JP_]

Serves them right. Bet they were hoping to use the insurance money to build some flats and make a huge profit.

 

[Brigadier]

Serves them right. Bet they were hoping to use the insurance money to build some flats and make a huge profit.

I bet she didn't bat an eyelid.

Botox does that, you know

 

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[Deleted member 294929]

I went down the Crooked Mile Yesterday.

Who would have thought it?