Parish council considers bid to save village pub with help from residents
A parish council could step in to save a village pub from permanent closure with the help of residents.
The Labour in Vain in Yarnfield has been shut for several months and has now been put up for sale.
In July Stafford Borough Council granted planning permission for three homes to be built on the pub’s car park. The proposals sparked concerns that loss of the parking space could threaten the future of the venue, which is the village’s only pub.
Yarnfield residents and community leaders also fear the pub could close forever if it is sold to a developer. But parish councillors have said they would be willing to work with a buyer planning to reopen it as a pub to make the venture as successful as possible.
Councillor Kirsty Treen said: “I moved the day before lockdown and one of the reasons we moved here was because there was a local pub, somewhere to go. When it reopened we went.
