City pub sold off but plans for its future use remain a mystery
A CITY pub has been sold but mystery surrounds what will happen to it next.
Enterprise Inns has confirmed the sale of the Nightingale pub in Nettleham Road, Lincoln, to farming business and property developer MF Strawson Ltd.
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The Nightingale pub in Nettleham Road, Lincoln.
But the Grimsby-based company will not reveal what its plans are for the property.
The sale was dealt with by Banks, Long & Co of Lincoln and Peter Banks, a partner at the firm, has said that details of the sale in March are commercially sensitive.
However he confirmed the pub was put on the market for offers upwards of £400,000 in November and land adjoining its grounds had also been sold at auction.
"The pub does not have any planning permission attached to it," he said.
"We know that the new owners are going to submit a proposal in the near future."
City of Lincoln Council spokesman Caroline Ashman confirmed no application had yet been submitted to develop the former pub.
Shaun Barnett, night time economy manager at the Lincoln Business Improvement Group, said he hoped the purchaser's intention was to keep it as a pub to benefit the local community.
"It's a good time for someone to make an investment and great premises for someone to hold the freehold on and rent it out to a private tenant," he said.
"It's a concerning option that it could be eventually turned into housing like the Turks Head was."
He added: "I'm intrigued about what is going to happen to it but I'm sure it will be a fantastic investment for them."
The Nightingale's closure has come as a major blow to the Lincoln Branleys Petanque Club who play French boules on its grounds.
Ten years ago the club spent £3,500 creating a 15m by 45m gravel surface to play on.
President and founder of the club, Peter Mann, 62, said the 20-member club had been allowed to continue playing at the site until the end of August.
"We thought it was a secure home for us and it was quite a good little earner for the pub as we go there for refreshments and to use the toilet facilities," said Mr Mann of Willingham, near Gainsborough.
"It was an ideal situation.
"There has been a constant turnover of management at the Nightingale over the past few years."
A pub or social club which has an area of land that could be adapted to a boules surface can call Peter Mann on 07790 016723.
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by phil s, lincoln
Sunday, June 06 2010, 2:54PM
“Emma, loved your plan for a day in the life of a property developer. It is not often that the Echo makes me laugh.”
by Emma, mocking homophobic gimps
Saturday, June 05 2010, 12:31PM
“So now we can add homophobia to the list of reasons to revile you (as if we didn't have enough already). I know, let me tell you I'm Asian and see how the listless bunch of synapses you optimistically call a brain responds.
So anyway, what's your plan for today? Breakfast of pork scratchings and salted peanuts, followed by sitting in your urine-stained tracksuit bottoms, slinging stale beer down your neck and fantasing that you run a business? Or are you going to do something different for a change?”
by emma and martiiiiiin, lincs
Saturday, June 05 2010, 9:04AM
“emmaaa you lessoo go and play with your rabbit or are you one martiiiiiin the warped english teacher....”
by Emma, laughing at the dismal middle-aged failure
Friday, June 04 2010, 4:02PM
“"emma first of all you are not so bright yourself sweety"
Still brighter than you, sweaty, as is my 6 year old niece and my goldfish, come to think of it. Which leaves you where? Oh, that's right, at the bottom of the pile. Again.
Oh, and FYI in the Ladybird Book of Internet Bull**** "run" translates to "was once sick in the doorway of". Sounds about right to me.
Now you have a nice afternoon in your sordid drinking pit, won't you? I'm off to a proper pub :)”
by brit 4 shains, wivvaspoonz in da hood
Friday, June 04 2010, 3:02PM
“derr im wel klevar innit i can haz compnee wiv 24 peeps an i iz bigg suckcess an not a bottomm-fieding dowl doser onest guv u shud beleave me coz i iz well konvintzin innit durr hurr hurr”
by Please stop, you're getting embarrassing
Friday, June 04 2010, 2:42PM
“Yeah, of course you do. Sits in a grotty pub all day drinking cheap booze, can't string a coherent sentence together AND runs a property company. It's all so feasible. And I'm the chairman of ICI. After all, it's on the internet, so it must be true.”
by aving a laugh at the pondlife, lincs
Friday, June 04 2010, 9:06AM
“emma first of all you are not so bright yourself sweety and as for martiiiiiin not a dole doser but i run a property company employing 24 people so how is that .....”
by Emma, Lincoln
Thursday, June 03 2010, 2:58PM
“"as for age i m in me 40 s"
Are you sure you aren't talking about your IQ? It's just that my 6 year old niece has a better grasp of the English language than you. And no, she isn't a school teacher, either.”
by Martin, laughing at the ignorant dole dosser
Thursday, June 03 2010, 1:09PM
“Yeah, I almost understood 50% of that without having to run it through babelfish's Idiot->English converter first. Well done.”
by having a laugh at martiiiiin, lincoln
Thursday, June 03 2010, 12:57PM
“Sorry martin but i may not be cretinous old acholic old man.The reason being is i DO NOT drink but go for the company of my friends and having a laugh as for age i m in me 40 s.Not like you, who is probably some retired ex school teacher whos burnt out thinks hes above eyeryone on english...As for the pubs that have been shut down if they cannot tidy themselves up and still charge silly money for a good pint then thats the way forward knock em down...SIMPLE”