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Tag Archives: English Heritage
Mystery after Grade II-listed Leslie Arms is pulled from auction
Auctioneer Swindells claims the landmark pub was never in his company’s catalogue, as Ansari-linked property fails to sell for third time in as many months. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The Leslie Arms, the Grade II-listed Victorian landmark building in Addiscombe … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Leslie Arms, Planning, Property, Pubs
Tagged AA Homes, Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, Anwar Ansari, Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dogs attack, Dr Anwar Ansari, Edward Swindells, English Heritage, Kangal, Labour, Landlord licensing, Leslie Arms, Lower Addiscombe Road, The Victorian Society, Tim Martin, Turkish Kangal, Wetherspoons
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Councillors in plea to Wetherspoons: Dear Tim, buy our pub!
For sale: one long-neglected, heritage-listed Victorian boozer, likely to require millions of pounds to put right. For the third time in four months, the Leslie Arms is up for auction. And Labour councillors have appealed to pub chains to show … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Leslie Arms, Nick Beall, Patricia Hay-Justice, Planning, Property, Pubs, Sean Fitzsimons
Tagged AA Homes, Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, Anwar Ansari, Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dogs attack, Dr Anwar Ansari, English Heritage, Kangal, Labour, Landlord licensing, Leslie Arms, Lower Addiscombe Road, Nick Beall, Patricia Hay-Justice, Sean Fitzsimons, The Victorian Society, Tim Martin, Turkish Kangal, Wetherspoons
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Ansari’s £90m property empire in collapse as receivers move in
In the latest sign of difficulties for businesses in Croydon, one of the borough’s biggest developers and landlords – a political donor to Sadiq Khan and Yvette Cooper in the past – is being forced to sell several properties. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Leslie Arms, Planning, Property, Pubs
Tagged AA Homes, Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, Anwar Ansari, Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dogs attack, Dr Anwar Ansari, English Heritage, Kangal, Labour, Landlord licensing, Leslie Arms, Lloyd Park, Lower Addiscombe Road, The Victorian Society, Turkish Kangal
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£1.45m Addiscombe landmark building withdrawn from auction
Financial figures published for the sale of Grade II-listed Leslie Arms were altered ahead of the auction date, with a two-bedroom flat shown now to be paying just £800 per month in rent. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Anwar Ansari, the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Leslie Arms, Planning, Property, Pubs
Tagged AA Homes, Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, Anwar Ansari, Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dogs attack, Dr Anwar Ansari, English Heritage, Kangal, Labour, Landlord licensing, Leslie Arms, Lloyd Park, Lower Addiscombe Road, Savills, Savills auctioneers, Savills estate agents, The Victorian Society, Turkish Kangal
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Addiscombe’s listed pub building put up for auction at £1.45m
The Leslie Arms, the Grade II-listed Victorian pub building on the corner of Cherry Orchard Road and Lower Addiscombe Road, has been placed for sale by auction next month. The auctioneers’ guide price is £1.45million. Built in 1900, the Leslie … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Leslie Arms, Planning, Property, Pubs
Tagged AA Homes, Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, Anwar Ansari, Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dogs attack, Dr Anwar Ansari, English Heritage, Kangal, Labour, Landlord licensing, Leslie Arms, Lloyd Park, Lower Addiscombe Road, The Victorian Society, Turkish Kangal
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Owner Ansari seeks to avoid Leslie Arms planning conditions
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Since 2000, a multi-millionaire property developer has been allowing a Grade II-listed pub to decay. Now, he wants to change the conditions of his latest planning permission. KEN LEE, Town Hall reporter, on the sorry tale of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Leslie Arms, Planning, Property, Pubs, Tony Newman, Uncategorized
Tagged AA Homes, Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, Anwar Ansari, Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dogs attack, Dr Anwar Ansari, English Heritage, Kangal, Labour, Landlord licensing, Leslie Arms, Lloyd Park, Lower Addiscombe Road, Sadiq Khan, Sir Sadiq Khan, The Victorian Society, Tony Newman, Turkish Kangal, Yvette Cooper
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Sutton puts Carshalton’s Grade II*-listed Old Rectory up for sale
Sutton Council has put the Old Rectory in Carshalton into the hands of estate agents, as the local authority makes attempts to raise some extra cash while driving down costs incurred through building maintenance. Not that the council appears to … Continue reading
Locals start campaign to have Burn Bullock pub rebuilt
English Heritage and Merton Council join calls for historic cricket pub to be rebuilt – just like the Crooked House in the Midlands. While in Croydon, there’s a second fire in nine months at another disused pub Another day, another … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Crime, History, London Fire Brigade, London-wide issues, Merton, Mitcham, Planning, Property, Pubs
Tagged Burn Bullock, Croydon, Drum and Monkey, English Heritage, Historic England, LFB, London Fire Brigade, Merton Council, Metropolitan Police, Mitcham, Mitcham Cricket Green, St James' Road, Suspected arson, The Windmill
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Stanley Halls books its place as part of English heritage
The transfer of Stanley Halls to a local community group in South Norwood has been included as a case study in English Heritage’s latest edition of Pillars of the Community. Stanley Halls is one of just two examples of “asset … Continue reading
