What do you bet the owning company will suddenly go bankrupt (because all it's assets have strangely been sold for £1 to a new company with the same directors)
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Even if they don't do that I think they'll go bankrupt, recreating the pub is probably far more expensive than they can afford
I think they are a reasonably large and apparently infamous (even before this) developer. They should have the assets to do this. Whether they actually use them or hide them is up for question.
They're clearly morally bankrupt. They'll do anything to not comply with the order if there's no money in it for them.
It depends if the directors.can be found legally liable. I don't think they can be financially liable unless it can be proved they have done something illegal (depending on their company setup)
They burned their pub down, that's definitely illegal. They then bulldozed it before the fire investigators could come in, extra illegal.
ALL THE ILLEGALS!!
Their entire history should be checked with several fine-toothed combs.
Damn, you beat me to posting this.
I wanted to put a single ":)" as the blurb.
Come the fuck on!
I can't imagine that it'd be possible to do that and conform to building code without some kind of special exemption.
Honestly, I'd think that if there's demand for a leaning pub like that -- and I think there is...I mean, I've heard about that thing repeatedly, seen video in it, and I live in the US -- it'd be easier to just build one whose owners want to run one, let them gave whatever building code exemptions are required. IIRC, that pub is kind of out of the way, not really where one would expect to put a new pub, given the choice.
It's a historical artefact, with history dating back to 10 years before the Declaration of Independence.
In cases like this, the order is often to rebuild as it was, even if it contravenes building regs for a new structure, as it's technically just restoring the old one.
They may do some construction with modern materials (for example, using a steel frame), but the finish will need to be the same as it was before destruction.