Shaun Ward is well known to residents of Ludlow. For more than a decade he served Laurence’s Church as Director of Music, Clerk of Works and Executive Manager. In 2019, he left St Laurence’s to concentrate on his gin business, which is going from strength to strength – if you will pardon the pun. Now, Shropshire Hills Distillery is planning to consolidate its two current sites with a single site on the Ludlow Farmshop (Food Centre) site at Bromfield. The plans include a distillery, a bar, a shop, a gin garden and a “gin school” where visitors will be able to mix their own gin. The mind wobbles at the thought. A licence application has been submitted for the premises. Ludlow Distillery will use an existing building. The application is welcome. The food centre site will attract more visitors. The A49/A4113 junction remains one of the most dangerous in the […]
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Changing Ludlow – Sainsbury’s, Greggs and much more housing
Is the biggest news in town the opening of Sainsbury’s on 30 November? Or is it the arrival of Greggs on King Street? Or the current construction of 400 new houses around the town with a few hundred more to come before the decade is out? As everyone can see, out town is changing. After a couple of decades during there has been little expansion to our town, development is going ahead with gusto. The developments bring benefits including more retail and much needed new housing but will also increase the pressure on our roads and the increase strain on services. Yet, we have no plans for how to manage this over the next few decades. Will these developments also change the character of our town? Or will we welcome absorb the new developments, the new people and new shops?
Bromfield to get mobile post office on Thursdays after current post office closes at the end of month
Bromfield Post Office is to close at the end of the month. Thanks to the hard work of the Bromfield parish council clerk, it will be replaced by a temporary mobile service on Thursday mornings. This will also be on the Food Centre site. This is good news for Bromfield and those that travel from surrounding parishes to use the popular post office. The post office will be open on Thursdays only, between 10am and 12pm midday.
Post Office consults on “temporary” Bromfield post office closure – parish council exploring options
Post Office Limited has launched a consultation on the closure of Bromfield Post Office which is to close on Monday 31 August. The Post Office is being closed because it is loss making at a time of dwindling margins due to the Covid-19 epidemic. The Post Office would not fund moving the facility into the Food Centre. The consultation letter (FAQ) insists that the closure is temporary but gives no information on what moves the Post Office is making to ensure continuity or reinstate services at Bromfield. The consultation closes on 31 August. Email: comments@postoffice.co.uk A working group set up by Bromfield Parish Council is making enquiries about setting up an outreach service to serve residents for a few hours a week.
New link for Bromfield Parish Council extraordinary meeting on closure of post office, tomorrow (Tuesday) 18:30 on Zoom
With apologies, I have had to move the online meeting for Bromfield Parish Council tomorrow night (14 July). This is because I had set the original meeting up on a free account, not my paid account. The free account would have limited the meeting to 40 minutes. The new link to join the Zoom meeting is https://bit.ly/BromfieldPO. The Zoom ID for the meeting is 884 4034 4756. The meeting begins at six thirty in the evening and will end by 8 o’clock at the latest. I’m aiming for 7.30pm Ludlow Farmshop has sent an explanation on why it will be closing the post office and village shop. I reproduce this below. My aim in calling the meeting is to seek clarity on the proposals and to hear the views of people who use the post office and shop. I hope to see you online.