An application has been submitted to convert The Rodney pub in Garlinge into six flats and a microbrewery plus three 2-bed houses within the pub’s grounds.
The Garlinge High Street pub, which has a licensee list going back to 1819, has been closed since March following the decision of previous landlady Karen Boore to retire.
Karen had been at the helm of the pub since 2019 and hosted numerous community and charity events.
The pub was sold and the new application has been made by Anchor Properties U.K LTD.
The conversion and new build plans will include18 cycle space and 9 car parking spaces, an increase from five.
A decision on the application has not yet been made by Thanet council.
Another pub, when the Rodney isn’t commercially viable going off the garlinge grapevine? Good luck…
Most pubs are viable but only if the business model is right. Take away sky-high PubCo rents and the mark up they load onto draught/keg beer and free houses can do quite nicely. Good luck to the Rodney!
Garlinge High Street is already a nightmare to drive down so what’s it going to be like with 8 more families jammed in!
Microbrewery….do me a favour! It will remain empty like the unit in the flats that replaced The Old Charles Pub in Cliftonville and will eventually get turned into a residential unit. Another community pub gone for good by the looks of it…..sad times.
It’s OK if you cycle. Give it a try!
About time you learned to drive isn’t it or aren’t you selling enough of your books to afford to do that ?
Nigel – why the nasty posting? Perhaps Mr Checksfield has no interest in driving. His publications do very well. Are you on benefits and a touch jealous?
His probably another one of those people who don’t see the irony of complaining about traffic while sat in his car.
You’re right about Charles Court John. That unit is still empty!
I believe the one at ‘The Knot’ (formerly The Nottingham Castle) in Westgate is still empty too. It certainly was when I walked past it a few months back.
Use it or lose it….
I used it regularly when I lived there 1987-1990, and it was so busy we’d be queuing to get served. Went back there for the first time in decades a year or two back, and there were only about 6 people in the whole pub on a nice sunny day (and the meals we had were very mediocre, though it was cheap and the staff were friendly enough).
And when did you last use it regularly?
The Rodney was a great place to go. Functions in the back hall and live music in the front bar on Sundays.
Roast dinners were second to none and their steak nights were amazing.
Karaoke on a Friday for those that wanted it and Charity days in the garden in the summer. Bbqs and fun times had by all who came.
A really lovely family and staff that all seemed to love working there.
My husband, myself and vast family loved the Rodney and miss it so much.
Hope there not building in the garden area, I’m quite sure history states the pub was rebuilt to were it is now because it sunk in the garden area when first built.