Residents in a Lincolnshire village are trying to raise money to buy and reopen their local pub.<\/p>\n
The Ship Inn at Surfleet Seas End, near Spalding, closed more than a year ago and is on the market for \u00a3550,000.<\/p>\n
It has recently been listed as an Asset of Community Value, which gives local groups a chance to delay the sale of the property and place a community bid.<\/p>\n
Mark Newlands, from the community group Shipmates, said the pub was a centre of activity, “not just for eating and drinking, it was a place to socialise”.<\/p>\n
Newlands said the pub hosted various events that brought locals together.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, we can’t do that anymore,” he added.<\/p>\n
“There would be celebrations there. There would be wakes there. There would be classes run there.”<\/p>\n
The group has set up a website, external<\/a> and held open meetings to gauge interest and discuss what people would like to see in the pub, describing the feedback as “positive”.<\/p>\n It said 340 people had registered their support and it was now trying to raise enough money to submit a community bid.<\/p>\n “If we could get it back and get it reopened and extend its use beyond just being a place to eat and drink, it would serve as a really central part of the community once again,” Newlands said.<\/p>\n Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in a Lincolnshire village are trying to raise money to buy and reopen their local pub. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}