Councillor Wants Listing To Protect High Street Architecture
Jim Maddan has asked Council to list the Railway pub's Victorian façade
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Last month it was announced that The Railway pub on the corner of Putney High Street and the Upper Richmond Road was to be sold by current owners JD Wetherspoon.
Thamesfield councillor Jim Maddan has launched a campaign to save the Victorian architecture of the Railway pub opposite Putney station, which is being sold off by its owners, the Wetherspoon's pub chain. He has asked Wandsworth Council to list the pub under Article 4 of the Town and Country Planning Act, which means any new owners of the pub would have to apply for planning permission if they bought the pub and wanted to convert it into offices or homes. The pub was built in 1867 and then rebuilt in its current form in 1889.
Councillor Maddan said: "The distinctive façade of the Railway is part of the Victorian heritage of our high street, and I would hate to see it disappear. It should be preserved, whoever the new owners turn out to be. Otherwise there is a danger that, under permitted development rights, someone could buy it and then turn it into something else and rebuild the façade."
June 3, 2016