The Christmas Lights are down, and floods are abating. So what else has been happening. It appears that The Harp, (formerly Plough) on Stert Street, has closed and the Cross Keys has re-opened.
The Harp’s loss is the Cross Keys’ Gain. The Proprietors have moved from one to t’other.
Any idea if the harp is shut for good?
Signs in the windows directing you to the Letting Agency
just along the road if your interested.
Great the Harp was rubbish pub anyway
Isn’t the Cross Keys up for sale too?
The building next to the Harp in Stert st (I think its the Abbey office or similar? it stretches back to abbey close) had a planning application last year to demolish all of it and replace it with appartments, Well the planning application was withdrawn and I heard a rumor they had bought the Harp with a view to knocking that down too and incorporating it a new/revised plan?
To be fair when I was new to the area I went in the Harp for a pint and it was crap
The application for the Stert St office redevelopment wasn’t withdrawn just deferred when various local groups objected and pointed out that the planners hadn’t followed proper process for the application. It will undoubtedly re-appear!
The planning application was resubmitted – and the people who have bought the pub are definitely *not* the same people who put in the planning application…
Will they “put in an extra crossing” to allieviate all the traffic issues on that side of town, just as the extra crossing by the double roundabouts on Ock St is going to sort all the traffic ills in the South?
I may have misunderstood the ‘plans’ which are posted showing the proposed crossings -( it is possible). However, I cannot see that ‘extra’ crossings are proposed…it seemed as if the two existing crossings are just going to be moved a short distance from their current sites?
@10 Cassandra – Can you point us to the plans please ?
Ref # or web address.
Thanks
Gosh I am wondering if I imagined this?!!
The plans are just notices. (A4 sheets laminated) which are tied to lamp posts in the vicinity of the pedestrian crossings on Ock St and Marcham Road. The two crossings are closest to the double roundabout at the intersections between those two roads and Drayton Rd/Spring Rd.
Hope this all makes sense. I am attempting to input this using a tablet and it keeps auto correcting into nonsense.
Hi Cassandra, this may be somethingto do with the new estate (that has recently been approved on apeal) on the Drayton Rd just past the town boundary? I understand that some of the approval conditions was to move the pedestrian crossing just in Marcham Rd a few hundred yards further along, which will probably mean it will end up slap bang outside the school that’s just had planning permission to be turned into flats along with a number of new build coach houses to the rear. !