Notes before Consultation on 30 November

Before the consultation it is probably worth having another look at this painting. Painted in possibly the twenties or thirties of the Queens Head pub. There is talk that the developers want to annex what is now ( and then) the salon bar and turn it back into a house. Which it hasn't been for almost 100 years. We had heard somewhere that this bar was added to the Queens Head on the understanding that it remain part of the pub in 1919. We have people who have been checking the land registry to find out wether this is the case our ACV protects the whole pub including the saloon bar and the kitchen upstairs which we understand to mean that they would have to apply for planning to turn this part if the pub into a residential property. The developers have assured us that the space that would be a pub would actually increase because they would move the toilets on the ground floor into the basement. They have suggested that the original pub space was 98 sq metres but it would increase to 160 sq metres. It is important to ask questions relating to this at the consultation. We have heard that a restaurant could be being proposed in the basement, at our meeting we were told that the basement would be a kitchen and extra bar area and for the toilets. During our research into this. It is becoming clear that it may not be technically possible to have a kitchen in the basement due to fumes etc. All of these things will need to be investigated on wednesday and it is important that you ask questions regarding the basement and floor space. The Save the Queens Head demands are simple. We want exactly the same pub, in the same place, the name to still be the Queens Head , for a live in landlord , lgbtqi friendly and entertainment. The consultation is our chance to demand these things from the owners, who bought this land cheaply as a working pub with livein staff back in 2010 have managed to get the live in staff off the premises making it more lucrative. They would not have paid Chelsea House prices for it at all in fact only 2 or 3 million. The saloon bar turned into a townhouse would make treble that sum. We do not want anything that resembles or is a restaurant, there have been so many popular pubs in Chelsea which have been turned into restaurants, only to close after a couple of years. Look at the Red House! Is this a plan by developers to keep changing these popular bars into pricey restaurants a ploy? So that once people forget they can develop them into residential properties. In the case if the Queens Head which has been a pivotal community hub engaging with the local community, ;the gay community and the wider tourist community, which is hundreds of rbkc taxpayers keeping money into the borough and attracting visitors from further afield and replace that with a pricey restaurant and a townhouse and flats above? That no one will live in! Please come support our community and support the reopening of the Queens Head!