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