Daniel Whiteway • Published 28 Jan 2013 11:00



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A COUNCILLOR has slammed a society’s ‘pernicious’ attempt to apply to give a pub he owns listed status.

Cllr Tom Bursnall, who bought The Bricklayers Arms, Windsor, in August last year, has hit out at The Windsor And Eton Society, which has applied to English Heritage for listed building status for the pub in Hatch Lane.

The UKIP councillor said: “No-one has thought to list it for 45 years. It has been mutilated since when it was first built and it has no architectural merit and to apply to have it spot-listed by English Heritage is pernicious and laughable.”

Cllr Bursnall’s planning application, to turn the pub into three townhouses, was due to be decided by Royal Borough planning officers by Tuesday but the application to English Heritage will delay the decision.

Cllr Bursnall added the delay is testing his patience as he must pay business rate tax while the building stands unused and added: “The longer it goes on, it makes me more and more minded to accept the offers I have had for it, by developers who I know for a fact would plan a far more damaging development such as flats or religious education centre.”

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  SammyTobin
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  Jan 28, 11:38
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  I agree with Cllr Bursnell on this one.

  Any listing should have been done decades ago – it strikes me as pretty naked political antagonizing; the WE Heritage Society should be ashamed of themselves. If they were to list it, im sure the Councillor would have a pretty strong case to appeal on those such grounds; especially given the national government’s seemingly pro-development agenda currently….

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