Dear Cllr Tod,

URGENT – the Corner House pub / Forester’s Arms, Winchester

We are writing to you about the bizarre and troubling case of the historic Corner House pub (originally the Forester’s Arms) and urging you, as Leader of the Council, to step in and take action, to prevent the unnecessary loss of this pub.

We are asking specifically that you stop/withdraw the planning application and allow for a proper consideration of the future of the Corner House/Forester’s, including as a pub, something that has so far been denied both by the previous owners and also by the direct action of Winchester City Council to buy the pub as a development opportunity, something we were staggered – and frankly appalled – to hear about.