I was watching BBC News last night and there was a feature on "The New Inns" on Summer Road, Erdington. In the wake of the Crooked House fire, CAMRA and the West Midlands Combined Authority have drawn up a list of pubs to see if and how they can be protected. The New Inns was highlighted as a pub that is under threat and which is due to close at the end of this month.
The owners, RedCat Pub Company are putting the pub up for sale. The present landlords had offered to purchase the pub, but that offer was rejected. The Black family who have been landlords for six years, fear the pub could be sold for redevelopment (like the Crooked House, it isn't listed) and understand the owners may be looking for a temporary landlord to run the pub, until it is sold.
A petition to save the pub already has over a thousand signatures. Too many pubs have already closed in Erdington in recent years and locals clearly feel strongly that this one shouldn't be added to that list, I hope that something can be done to keep it and other such Birmingham pubs open. I have added links to the news story below from the BBC and Birmingham Live:
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BBC News link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-66895677
Birmingham Live link:
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/wh...oers-gutted-popular-birmingham-venue-27754161