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BRITAIN’S biggest consumer pressure group the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) launched a fresh initiative yesterday to protect 3,000 pubs at risk of demolition or conversion to other uses.
Camra, which has more than 100,000 members, says traditional pubs are closing at the rate of 29 a week.
The campaign’s members will be nominating pubs under threat to be classified as assets of community value (ACVs), a status which gives them planning protection under laws introduced in April.
Eight hundred pubs have been nominated so far. The initiative aims to raise the profile of ACVs among the pub-going public and increase the number with ACV status to 3,000 by the end of 2016.
Camra head of communications Tom Stainer said ACV status meant a pub was “no longer a soft target to would-be developers looking to quickly purchase and convert or demolish the pub, which in some instances has literally happened overnight.”
