A landlord has accused the council of ‘bullying’ him for standing as a BNP candidate by issuing his pub with a compulsory purchase order (CPO).Derek Adams, who came second in last week’s Moston by-election, said that his premises - the Ace of Diamonds on Oldham Road - faces a CPO under the council’s Private Finance Initiative in Miles Platting. In a statement on its website, the BNP claim sthat the CPO was issued ‘for no apparent reason other than to persecute the owner’ and that the pub was not originally included in the area’s redevelopment plans.
However, council officials have rubbished the claims, saying that the decision to issue the CPO in December 2007 followed widespread consultation and publicity about plans for the area dating back to 2001. After objections to the order were received a public inquiry was held over four days last July, which Mr Adams attended to present his case.
Speaking last week, the BNP activist said: "It will be a sad day for myself and the local community when they destroy this building. They will never break my spirit or my resolve, they can take away my business and my home but they will never take away my determination to see these people held to account for the destruction of my city and my nation."
In response New East Manchester chief executive Eddie Smith said the CPO decision had ‘nothing to do with political allegiances’.
"Regeneration plans for Miles Platting, including the Ace of Diamonds pub, have been carefully considered for several years and were agreed in July 2007 by the council’s executive after extensive consultation," he said. "Manchester City Council has followed the formal CPO process, held a public inquiry last summer and the decision to confirm the CPO was made by Hazel Blears MP, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in February of this year.
"This decision has nothing to do with political allegiances. It’s about progressing an ambitious Private Finance Initiative which will see £160 million of public money invested, along with a similar amount of private sector funding, in order to breath new life into this part of the city and make it a better place to live for local people."
According to Mr Adams, the pub has been in existence since around 1850.
North East Manchester Advertiser
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"This decision has nothing to do with political allegiances. It’s about progressing an ambitious Private Finance Initiative which will see £160 million of public money invested, along with a similar amount of private sector funding, in order to breath new life into this part of the city and make it a better place to live for local people."
Manchester has a huge amount of long-overdue regeneration going on (as has Liverpool and no doubt many other large cities) and it cannot be allowed to be blocked by one idiot and this ninth-rate excuse for a political party. Mr Adams and his persecution complex should be bulldozed aside like his crap BNP-supporting shithole of a pub.
Manchester has a huge amount of long-overdue regeneration going on (as has Liverpool and no doubt many other large cities) and it cannot be allowed to be blocked by one idiot and this ninth-rate excuse for a political party. Mr Adams and his persecution complex should be bulldozed aside like his crap BNP-supporting shithole of a pub.
Got to agree with that. :)
"They will never break my spirit or my resolve, they can take away my business and my home but they will never take away my determination to see these people held to account for the destruction of my city and my nation."
Are all these idiots infected with Agincourtitis?
I very much doubt whether there was any political motive for the council's actions, but it would be great if there was. Wouldn't this just send the right message to any other pub landlords who are willing to open their doors and sell drink to racist scumbags who then go out fortified with Dutch courage and terrorise innocent people in the street?
Yeah sure, the City Council is sure to redesign a multi-million pound redevelopment scheme with the sole purpose of demolishing a pub owned/ operated by a BNP sympathiser. AND the Government Inspector at the CPO Inquiry will of course have been paid by the ZANuNewLab / ZOG / Lanc Unity paymasters to let them have their evil way ...
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It seems that there may be grounds for the Licensing Committe to withdraw the license before the CPO - After all No License will reduce the compensation !Go for it Manchester Residents bankrupt the Bastards !
Old Sailor.
I don't like seeing pubs knocked down but in this case I'm happy to do some voluntary work for free to help out.
Scumfront has been bragging for the past few weeks about a pub that's allegedly been opened up in Glasgow by the Racial Volunteer Force. Private Finance Initiative anyone?
I note that this pub is listed in the British Pages (!)along with a hotel in Blackpool.
It will hold a St George's Day celebration on 19th as it has been banned everywhere else (according to the BNP fave Daily Mail).
Another BNP front:
http://britishpages.webs.com/northwestregion.htm
Cheers for that link Eric
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