The village has lost so much, the pub should be sold to someone that will keep the doors open. The area is blessed with visitors both passing through and from the campsite. We no longer have hairdressers, mobile library, coffee shop and the bus service has been reduced. The pub is an asset to the community or at least should be.

We need to keep the pub. A community based project could show real investment in our village, such as cooking clubs, a central meeting hub and would add more worth than changing its use.

The unfortunate fact is that the pub is worth more money as a domestic property. The owners are cynically trying to cash in on this by running the business to ruin and then claiming economic non-viability. It is surely the duty of the planners to protect the villagers from this behaviour.

I fully support saving our village pub. The only reason it is not a viable business is because it's hardly ever open. Closes early on weekend nights. The towns have lost touch with the community.

It would be nice to visit the village with a pub that’s open. I’ve been visiting regularly for the last 3 years without a functioning pub. It would be fantastic to see a community run pub that could very easily be a busy hub of the village! Is a village without a pub even really a village anymore?

Sixpenny Handley can support a pub. A pub fulfils services not supplied by the camp site or the bar at the sport pavilion. The size of the village, especially considering the new housing currently being built suggest a well run pub is viable.

Such ashame, how can people get away with this, tricking the council by running it into the ground.

We have lived in Chase Crescent now for two years, we were so happy we had a village pub when we bought the house. We then visited the pub for dinner one evening, we were the only ones who came in but it felt like you were in someones front room and that our presence was was stopping the owners from doing something else. I have a vast amount of knowledge and experience in hospitality and running pubs, restaurants and coffee shops. My opinion for what it may be worth is that the pub needs to be a lot more than just a pub!! community centre, coffee shop, meeting place and regards to food, not everyone wants to eat or can afford margret de canard (smoked duck breast), poussin and fillet steak. There is a place on a menu for a range of options to cover all tastes and budgets. If it is only so called high end food with a high end price you will scare people away just like the King John which is over priced. We would love to be part of resurrecting the pub and to help with budgets and Profit and loss accounts, but I would hope if it is to be run by the community then it would be a non profit company and all profits put back into the pub and community. I am more than happy to become part of team to help push this forward and work on the business proposals and dealing with suppliers and of course the food side.