Report from our meeting with the owners of the Queens Head

Our meeting was successful but we still need to watch this space. We met with the owner, David Barroukh, Charlotte a representative from Saville and Duncan Flynn from Cavendish. Firstly they have been overwhelmed with the emails all you guys have sent to them directly, they have also been keeping an eye on the petition and the social media campaign.they have not seen such a response such as this before. So keep it up. Everything you say they are actively watching.so Keep watching them and emailing and retweeting it's getting our message out there. We presented a folder with all your comments. Which David Barroukh the owner took away with him to read and we believe he will. As to our demands: they were receptive to our proposals we have verbal assurances that the pub will still be called the Queens-Head, that the fixtures and fittings will not be destroyed, That the pub will be a pub a predominantly drinking establishment with food but not a restaurant, we will be claryfying this with the Chelsea Society , they want to lose one bar but they will increase the floor space, by putting the toilets and kitchen in the basement. They want to meet with all of the community in November so everyone must come and do your homework on what kind of pub you want. This is our chance to reopen the Queens Head like you want it. So please keep the liking and shares up and remember if you live in rbkc,Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham and wandsworth please write you comments for the acv! Thanks to everyone you are all stars!

Celebrate National Coming Out Day today!

Its National Coming Out Day today. Do it in Style. Then sign & share our petition! The Queens-Head Chelsea xx
#savethequeensheadchelsea #LGBTQIagainsttheclosureofthequeenshead
https://www.change.org/p/re-open-the-queens-head-chelsea

Celebrate LGBTQI Month of October!

Now the Queens Head Chelsea is closed..we're like...

Don't replace the Queens Head with luxury flats!

Our pub closed after 175 years of serving the Chelsea community. The Queens-Head Chelsea welcomed everyone but with just three weeks notice the freeholders closed an institution of 175 years! All th livein staff had to find new homes after in some cases living there and working in our community for 10 years. The developers want to turn it into 3 flats and build a house where our saloon bar is and a restaurant. the three people who will own these luxury flats will never live in them and will probably just be a nice little investment and will contribute nothing to our community. And all the hundreds of people who used to go into the pub will not be able to afford to go into the restaurant where gravy will be called jus and crisps and peanuts served on a saucer. We have an online petition to the freeholders reopen our pub as it was and also we are applying for an Asset of Community Value to protect our pub. Many people may think that because it is Chelsea that it is inevitable that many places will close due to market forces and non profitability, but our pub was busy every weekend more busy than any of the others, but obviously cant compete with a fancy restaurant and why should it? Our Queens-Head Chelsea community was made up from all works of life, the people in the neighbouring houses, the people from the housing estates, the LGBTQI community who have no other pub left in RBKC, people that attended Jivin Julies Kareoake every 2 weeks,the shop workers, the builders, the lords and ladies,the gardeners, the taxi drivers, the cleaners, the councillors,the hairdressers,the teachers, people who work in the 4 local hospitals, the tourists who come back every year to see our traditional pub,and more. Everyone knew each other. The people that buy land with a pub on it (possibly for cheaper) should never be allowed to knock it down it is a crime! please sign our petition and join our facebook page if you would like to help us reopen our pub, thankyouhttps://www.change.org/p/re-open-the-queens-head-chelsea

Old Picture of Pubs including the Queens Head Chelsea

Save the Queens Head Chelsea Save the Queens Head Chelsea Please Sign our petition and share it widely. This is such an old photograph and probably the oldest I have found so far of the Queens-Head Chelsea its from this site which has great old photographs of London Pubs: Sign the petition first, then have a browse! http://alondoninheritance.com/category/londonpubs

Chelsea Society and The Queens Head

The Chelsea Society are supporting our ACV listing and have met with the owners and written something about us in their blog. Please have a look here:

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..The Society has reserved its position, and wishes to see the proposed layout of the ground floor and basement, as it is important that enough space (including space for storage) would remain for a viable pub on this site in the heart of Chelsea.  We would also wish RBKC to obtain evidence from expert consultants as to economic viability, and we would need to be satisfied that the necessary works would be done, and that a lease of the pub would be granted on suitable terms.  We would not wish to see the Victorian pub fittings removed or damaged.
We remain to be satisfied that this is not the first step in a scheme to turn the whole building into flats...

http://chelseasociety.org.uk/queens-head-tryon-street