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Mar 2021
Chancellor's fund brings hope to Kirkby Malzeard pub campaigners
Campaigners wanting to refurbish and reopen the Henry Jenkins Inn in Kirkby Malzeard have received a glimmer of hope.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a new £150m Community Ownership Fund in this month's Budget.
The fund lets community groups apply for £250,000 matched-funding to help them buy or take over local community assets at risk of being lost.
This fund, which will save some pubs from permanent closure, has been welcomed by the Henry Jenkins Community Pub Ltd.
Its 190 members have pledged £236,000 in a bid to turn the derelict building between Ripon and Masham back into use as a pub and community facility.
HJCPL chair David Robinson told the Stray Ferret:
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David Fielder, who purchased the closed-down pub out of receivership in 2012, is willing to talk to the campaign group.
He said:
Last year, the pub campaigners suffered a bitter blow at a planning appeal.
The Planning Inspectorate, which deals with planning appeals, overturned Harrogate Borough Council’s decision to refuse planning permission for conversion of the eastern part of the Henry Jenkins site into a single dwelling.
HJCPL had been confident that the council’s decision would be upheld, but planning inspector Helen Hockenhull was not persuaded by their argument.
In her report she concluded:
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