While one Victorian era pub building in Croydon faces continuing uncertainty, a residents’ campaign in Kenley has been successful in achieving Asset of Community Value status for what could become a community hub
‘An example of beutiful Victorian architecture’: The Kenley Hotel, closed for almost a year, with locals fearing for its fate
The Kenley Hotel, a grand Victorian pub building on the Godstone Road which served pints to RAF heroes and heroines during the Battle of Britain and which has a bar reputedly made for the doomed Titanic, has been given a reprieve from developers’ bulldozers, for now at least.
Croydon Council has granted an application from the local residents’ association to have the Kenley Hotel made an Asset of Community Value, or ACV.
Now “all” that KENDRA, the Kenley and District Residents’ Association, has to do is raise the money to buy the property. Continue reading
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