[kristianc]

"Does Britain really need?" has been responsible for the gutting of so much of what used to make Britain a nice place to live over the last 20 years. You can say she same about public libraries, local bus routes, civic architecture, arts funding, youth services, maintenance budgets. The damage has been incalculable.

[flir]

You won't find any argument from me on all those other things.

But pubs are a weird place to draw the line.

[kristianc]

Every one of them individually seems like a weird place to draw the line. Social fabric and the ties that bond matter.

[ljm]

Probably because the line keeps getting moved. There's a lot of pressure to build housing with little to no consideration of community, either existing or new.

Just get rid of all the third spaces in an area and turn it into a lifeless residential suburb or something. Once pubs are gone it'll be something else.