Bunny19

None of the empty space on LL have a chance of gaining a planning change of use

Was walking in and out of the place and saw him today too

Don't think there is a unit big enough to fit their business model available

Went yesterday, can't understand why the old owner is still milling around there, sort of puts downer on it for me, nice sandwich and a quid cheaper than the Bishop, but the place lacks something apart from customers..... I hope the new management turn it around, but my heart says, a lick of paint and a new menu isn't enough to rid the negatives of a really badly run establishment.

If your budget is around half a million and you are looking at staying in ED, the latter

Sponsored hunt for customers for The Cherry Tree

Could it not be called 'the great escape' lots of conitasions there!!!

If I remember right when I enquired at least a year ago in was ?39k pa plus your business rates of course....

Not in Sainsbuys, but in the EDT on Monday nigh, Peter Perett and Mike Kellie from the legendary punk era group The Only Ones, may be a reform as Vodafone playing their tracks in the tv ads? That would be wicked.

I'm really surprised that the jumped up dog haters on the forum haven't suggested a Korean yet, come on guys keep your plot ticking :))

Now there's an idea......

Surfbobby, as it's an Olympic year and unofficial event, can't we up the anti and have 2 pints and 2 shots each end, think of it as an even more modern day pentathlon,

1200 square feet in the village probably 3 to 4k a month, as suggested look further afield

Still open yesterday at 5.45

I only wish that it was a police ingenious thought to remove it, haul it round round unscrupulous scrap metal dealers to see who would be prepared to take it, and then nail them.

Not isolated to Crystal Palace Road, I've had 3 tyres slashed in 18 months on Dunstans Road, and both my neighbors have have had it happen too.

Pete I own the maisonette, the basement in inhabited by a troll who I would think has never had a shower! But no difference In pressure, TW on my complaint ran both when investigating.

Hi Peter, yes two plumbers and TW have looked at it, the best explanation they have given is that the basement flat beneath my maisonette has the priority feed, even though the water enters at my level.

Yep hits 1 bar at intake off the road, decreases to less than a third of a bar once in in the kitchen at that time. I'll fight it with you all the way, but I've had no luck in the last 5 years, and believe me I've been on their case for most of it. 20 letters, 4 visits and still sweet FA.

Trizza, you are quite correct in you post about a 1 bar requirement, but by the time the flow hits my kitchen sink at that time of day it's greatly reduced on the same level.

Yep, certainly 2 or 3 times a week on Dunstans I have nothing more than a trickle between those times. Thames Water told me to get a megaflow system as there was nothing that they were prepared to do about it.

Birmingham's Bavarian Christmas Market is reputed to be the biggest in the UK, I used to enjoy the authenticity of it, many German stalls and food outlets. I went last year and although still very good a some of the stalls were selling tat, nevertheless still enjoyable, even if mighty, mighty busy on the Saturday I went.

I think they are very helpful in there but do agree massively expensive

Being a Brummie, I'd be delighted to see a 'proper' Balti house' in ED. Having said that I'm yet to find one outside of the Balsall Heath area of Birmingham that is remotely authentic. Balti cuisine became known throughout the UK during the 1990s, after initial growth in Birmingham since the 1980s. One school of thought states that name 'Balti' for food may reflect the fact that an ethnic group living in that area of north Pakistan are called Balti. Alternatively, 'Balti' food is named after the pot in which it is cooked. That origin of the word is to do with the Urdu and Hindi word balty - "Balty, s. Hin. balti, which means "bucket." This is the Port. balde."[2] As mentioned in the late nineteenth century in Hobson-Jobson, the term 'balti' refers to the steel or iron pot in which the food is cooked or served, taken from the word 'balti', which is derived from the Portuguese word 'balde', meaning bucket/pail, which was taken to India by the Portuguese on their seafaring enterprises in late fifteenth century. Therefore, originally, the word 'Balti' refers to a bucket, then evolving to its meaning as a cooking pot. If you can replicate it good luck, but it's a very different taste to the baltis available down here in general ( satarge in Covent Garden excluded) I think it would be a very risky venture.

EDOldie, you are quite correct, both pubs owned by Mitchells and Butlers, definitely not an easy brewery to work for, (if any is, in this day and age). The Crown and Greyhound's proposition is totally different to the Plough. I think both are good, traditional, solid boozers. I have tried to buy the Plough from M&B without success, as I think given a free reign rather than brewery restricted bull it has the potential to be a cracking establishment. Let's not forget less than a decade ago it was nothing short of a drugs den. Yes, I have waited far too long to be served at times, but the place is run on a tight budget. I still have hopes of getting hold of the place and Turing it back into the traditional old coaching inn it is.