• Yes, rebuild the Crooked House brick by brick – and buttress local planning, too | Simon Jenkins

    Yes, rebuild the Crooked House brick by brick – and buttress local planning, too | Simon Jenkins
    Communities need more power to protect assets such as historic pubs: the centralised system too often favours developersWhose fault is the demise of the Crooked House in Himley, Staffordshire, now a pile of bricks? The nation is up in arms. MPs, peers, mayors, editors, villagers and about 18,000 people on a Facebook group are all gnashing their teeth. Even the demolition contractor, whose digger was actually booked before the pub caught fire, is embarrassed. Many of these worthies may not have k

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