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Community & Environment

Environmental & Community Update for The Sun Inn, Leintwardine

We recognize the Sun Inn's unique status as one of the UK's last remaining Parlour Pubs and intend to maintain it as a very special kind of 'living museum' where good beers can be enjoyed in an historic environment while banter and joviality abound.

As the Sun Inn needs to be self-supporting and perform more than one role within the community, we also want to add a carefully and sympathetically designed rear section to the building. This new construction will incorporate a conventional bar area, comfortable seating, a games area and modern toilets.

We presented our thoughts regarding the proposed new building work at meeting with concerned local people. Our proposals were generally accepted as a positive and sensitive way to create a welcoming community environment whilst retaining the atmosphere of this very special listed village pub.

Since then, we have met with architects and sustainable building advisors and a brief summary of our current situation is in the PLANS section of the website. We intend to update this website on a regular basis and keep people informed of our progress.

Sun on the BBC

The Sun Inn is to appear once again on national television on BBC 1 in the programme "Country Tracks".
Although, filmed in the Sun’s famous Red Brick Bar in March this year, it is hoped that it will also feature unique footage of much loved and sadly missed former landlady Flossie Lane. Pub regular Wayne Smith captured Floss on film during the Annual Beer Festival in August 2007 and kindly donated a copy to the BBC to use in the show.Country Tracks will be shown on Sunday 10th October at 11am.

Sun Band make Finals

Sun Inn regulars Ross and Haydon of the pubs resident band Bridge 32 have made it through to the regional finals of Open Mic UK.

Consent Granted

After what seems like many months of meetings and consultation it was a great surprise and huge relief when Planning permission and listed building consent was granted on 24th May 2010.