CAMPAIGNERS battling to save the historic Raven Inn at Glazebury as a community pub, remain confident the latest application to demolish it and replace it with a small housing development, will be refused.
The Help Save the Raven Inn team are expecting a decision to be made on the most recent planning application, during February.
They say there has been a huge groundswell of support in terms of objections to the current planning application.
Banners have been placed in Glazebury and Culcheth.
Helep Save The Raven Inn spokesperson Peter Sturman said: “We are able to keep our community informed via Culcheth Life Magazine and our Facebook group, indeed there have been nearly 200 new members join the group, since news broke of this latest planning application.
“We have engaged the services of Dale Ingram, a specialist planning and heritage consultant whose expertise is specifically in the pubs and brewing space, to represent us.
“She is preparing a detailed submission against the application.
“Some considerable offers have been made, to purchase the Raven, as a pub.
“Those offers remain on the table.
“We are confident the planning application will be refused. If so there are people who are ready to engage with the owners, to realise a substantial profit, for them, over what they paid for the Raven,” he added.
The latest proposal is for the Demolition of existing public house and construction of seven dwellings with car parking, landscaping and associated works.
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Campaigners draw up new battle plans to save historic Raven Inn from demolition
