Mid Gloucestershire Branch

West Central Region

Save Our Pubs Updates

  • Royal Oak set for Sale to Private Buyer

    The following was posted to the Own Our Oak page:

    Update 19th June 2025

    Dear Cromhall Community and supporters of Own Our Oak.
    We promised to update you all after our last communication, and we apologise that it has taken longer than we expected.

    Based on the pledges we received from all of you, and due to changes from the current owner to the initial agreement, we presented our best proposal. They have been considering our proposal for almost 3 weeks.

    The current owner has now informed us that they have an offer from another party, that exceeds what we as a community were able to offer. Their expectation is that they will sell to this other party.

    Assuming this all goes through this means the Own Our Oak will not need to be involved further. However if that sale is not successful we may get another chance later.

    At this point the committee has no further information on the potential buyer and their plans for the Royal Oak, so cannot answer any questions you might have.

    So, as long as the new buyer intends to keep the Royal Oak as a pub, this will be good news for everyone.

    Thanks for your support,


    The Own Our Oak committee

    https://ownouroak.co.uk/

  • Country Creatures take the Wild Duck as a New Habitat

    Work on The Wild Duck is now in full swing and we hear, not officially,
    that it is due to reopen in April 2026. It appears to have been sold by
    Youngs and the name on the latest planning information is Country
    Creatures Ltd who own The Masons Arms and Double Red Duke, both in
    Clanfield Oxfordshire. This all seems to be good news and we will
    hopefully have a fully refurbished Wild Duck this time next year.

    Wild Duck – CAMRA Website
    Gloucestershire Live Report
    Country Creatures Website

  • Lower Mills Estate reinvigorating the Bakers Arms

    The Bakers Arms in Somerford Keynes has changed tenant and we hear that The Lower Mill Estate has now taken on a 5 year full repairing lease, which the previous tenant said he couldn’t do due to the extensive repairs required to the building. The Lower Mill Estate have a lot of money behind them and an extensive maintenance team.

    Bakers Arms – CAMRA Website
    Bakers Arms – Website
    Lower Mills Estate

  • The Hawkesbury Fox is Living Again

    The Fox in Hawkesbury Upton has reopened as additional accommodation for a local golf club. As well as accommodation, they have reopened the bar to the general public and are selling 2 cask ales, currently St Austell Tribute and Timothy Taylor Landlord.

    Fox Inn – CAMRA Website

  • Unlawful Closure of The 12 Bells – Update

    We have an ongoing situation in Cirencester with the unlawful closure of The 12 Bells. One of our members has had a response from the office of our local MP, Roz Savage, an extract of which is copied below: –

    I’m writing with an update regarding your concerns about the closure of The 12 Bells pub in Cirencester. Following our enquiry on behalf of Roz Savage MP, Cotswold District Council has confirmed that there is an active enforcement case open regarding the potential unauthorised change of use of the premises (reference number 25/00007/COU).

    The Council’s Planning Enforcement Team has been in contact with the property owner and will be visiting the site as part of their investigation.

    If you would like to receive updates directly from the enforcement team, you can contact them via email at Planning.Enforcement@cotswold.gov.uk  quoting the reference 25/00007/COU.

    In order to show a higher level of interest it would be good if CAMRA members could email the address and reference above stating our disappointment that the pub remains closed and asking to be kept up to date by the Planning Enforcement Team.

    Please keep any emails polite.

  • Goat returns to the Globe in Stonehouse

    As announced on Facebook, The Globe Inn in Stonehouse is set to reopen at the end of April under it’s previous name. General consensus was the rebrand to primarily a restaurant under the name of GOAT was an unpopular move.


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  • The Old Neighbourhood has reopened

    ACV

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  • Rose & Crown back on the market as stable planning removed

    We regret to inform you that our purchase of the Rose and Crown is not proceeding – for now, at least.

    Following the recent withdrawal of the stables planning application, the owner has decided to put the stables and the pub back on the market. 

    we have communicated to the owner that our existing offer to purchase the pub remains on the table, and we hope a buyer for the stables can be found quickly so that our purchase of the pub can resume. 

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