The pub that never was...

Not everyone is a fan of Sam Smiths, but cheap and no music and reliable... I don't mind them. So wouldn't it have been nice to have one in Camden Town? But "NO!" thought the council.

This is from the Camden New Journal, 23rd July 2015. I'm sure they won't mind...


By RICHARD OSLEY

IT had a working title of the “Lock Gates” and would have brought Alpine Lager flowing in Camden Town.
But after more than 20 years of negotiations and planning applications dating back to 1991,  the Samuel Smith’s brewery, celebrated for its craft beers at sober prices, has given up on plans for a canal-side pub in Camden Town.

The brewery, based in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, has sold off the site for the proposed pub to developers, leaving this line drawing of how the bar might have looked gathering dust in the Town Hall planning department’s files.
Samuel Smith, which runs several London pubs, has been celebrated as an antidote to the gastropub facelifts at other bars in the capital. It maintains its line of own-brand favourites such as Taddy’s and Alpine Lager.
The Camden Town land has now been sold to Hawley Wharf developer Market Tech, which has bought up a series of sites in NW1.
Planners gave permission for the company to build a block of homes and a gym on the site at a council meeting on Thursday.


So well done Camden Council, instead of a nice traditional pub we've got a load of luxury flats instead. Yay!