Residents in protest against new JDW opening

[hopwas]

http://icseftonandwestlancs.icnetwor...name_page.html

I know JDW promotes cheap alcohol but I never known any troubles at my local JDWs (Apart from odd drunks shouting or odd square ups) There is high ratio of OAPS to young drinkers nationwide in JDWs.

Just like The Hornet which I visited last Tuesday, I was most certainly the youngest in the room and I am 31! Most drinkers are well over 50. It is only Fri and Sat where young drinkers take over JDW's. I avoid Fri & Sat nite and I go to my local instead.

[Tilly-Miss]

It seems everyone is against people drinking,you only have to watch the new drink campaign being rammed down our throats on tv, if boozing was that bad and causing so many ailments to people why is it allowed in the first place,this government wants each and everyone of us to become prisoners and unsociable people in our own home,feed us lousy cheap tv programmes,make stars and celebrities out of the useless lot that appear daily in the press,is it any wonder the country is going to the dogs.

[hondo]

“Their plans are of high quality, but it would be bar 38 in the area and we already think 37 is too much."


if they want less pubs then spoons may well get rid off the weaker ones

[arwkrite]

I think there is opposition to a JDWs project in Leominster. I remember them buying the closed Post Office building in The Square. The local Conservative Club would have been a couple of doors down so I think there may have been some bristling moustaches.. A Spoons in Leominster would certainly affect some struggling pubs in town.

[Oggwyn Trench]

JDW have been trying to open up in Newport , Shropshire for years , the council are opposed to it as there are already 11 pubs on the main street (or just off) in a smallish town .
Strangely there is only 1 in Telford which is pretty big these days (pop about 120000) , Wellington could do with 1 to raise the standard of the dire pubs and kill off the really bad ones

[hopwas]

JDW have been trying to open up in Newport , Shropshire for years , the council are opposed to it as there are already 11 pubs on the main street (or just off) in a smallish town .
Strangely there is only 1 in Telford which is pretty big these days (pop about 120000) , Wellington could do with 1 to raise the standard of the dire pubs and kill off the really bad ones

120,000?! surley thats total population for WHOLE Telford including surrounding areas. Not Telford City itself?

Anyway.. seriously there is 11 pubs on Main St in Newport alone? I know Newport is small town but 11 pubs...

Lichfield, Staffs has population of only around 27,000 but already got 2 JDWs plus 4 superb real ale houses and all are walkable each other..

In my hometown, We got 2 JDWs including one recently opened.. only problem is both JDWs are few mins walk each other!

[ROBCamra]

JDW have been trying to open up in Newport , Shropshire for years , the council are opposed to it as there are already 11 pubs on the main street (or just off) in a smallish town .
Strangely there is only 1 in Telford which is pretty big these days (pop about 120000) , Wellington could do with 1 to raise the standard of the dire pubs and kill off the really bad ones

Change the Beacon in Wellington into a JDW should do the trick. It's already the right sort of shape etc.