UK pub closures climb to 31 per week

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has launched a campaign urging the UK Government to close a legal loophole allowing pubs to be demolished or converted into supermarkets without planning permission, as the rate of closures rises to 31 per week.

Currently developers are able to convert pubs to other uses without planning permission, a legal loophole which CAMRA says has contributed to the loss of thousands of UK pubs.

In total, 3% of the the UK’s suburban pubs have been lost in the….