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A group of property developers have been ordered to rebuild a Grade II-listed pub that they demolished without permission.
The historic Punch Bowl Inn at Hurst Green, Lancashire, needs to be rebuilt brick by brick within a year, a judge has ruled.
Last year, a trial at Burnley magistrates court found five people guilty of the illegal demolition in June 2021 of the pub, which was built in the 1700s and was well known for its association with the famous highwaymen Dick Turpin and Ned King. King was executed in 1741 and his ghost was said to haunt the pub.
The court heard how there had been no need to demolish the building, despite the defence’s claim that it was structurally unsound, and that one of the developers had been warned that the demolition would be illegal.
The defence said they had been concerned the pub, which had been derelict since 2012, would collapse and could fall into the road. They said they had spoken to the council, Historic England and experts about what to do but “nobody was helping”.
In the years running up to the demolition, emergency services had been called a number of times when people set fires inside the building.
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The historic Punch Bowl Inn at Hurst Green, Lancashire, needs to be rebuilt brick by brick within a year, a judge has ruled.
Last year, a trial at Burnley magistrates court found five people guilty of the illegal demolition in June 2021 of the pub, which was built in the 1700s and was well known for its association with the famous highwaymen Dick Turpin and Ned King. King was executed in 1741 and his ghost was said to haunt the pub.
The court heard how there had been no need to demolish the building, despite the defence’s claim that it was structurally unsound, and that one of the developers had been warned that the demolition would be illegal.
The defence said they had been concerned the pub, which had been derelict since 2012, would collapse and could fall into the road. They said they had spoken to the council, Historic England and experts about what to do but “nobody was helping”.
In the years running up to the demolition, emergency services had been called a number of times when people set fires inside the building.
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