{"id":1471,"date":"2025-06-30T11:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:31:25","slug":"protest-at-plans-for-the-market-tavern-stroud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/protest-at-plans-for-the-market-tavern-stroud\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest at Plans for The Market Tavern, Stroud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been known as the\u00a0<strong>Pelican<\/strong>, the\u00a0<strong>Union,<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>Market Tavern<\/strong>, however the current owners are proposing to demolish the establishment. The pub is currently boarded up and with graffiti-style hip-hop murals commissioned by the town council and has stood empty since 2014. The Town Council have initially backed the plan for demolition within the areas Neighbourhood Development Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A protest took place at 2:00pm on Saturday 28th June, to protest at these plans and demand the building be retained and refurbished, ideally as a pub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Pelican was my favourite town pub, and I was a regular there from the moment I moved to Stroud in 1991.<br>&#8211; Tim Mars<br><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s some more on the pub\u2019s history: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloucestershirepubs.co.uk\/pubs\/union-inn-pelican-inn-market-tavern-2-union-street-stroud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">gloucestershirepubs.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been known as the\u00a0Pelican, the\u00a0Union,\u00a0and the\u00a0Market Tavern, however the current owners are proposing to demolish the establishment. The pub is currently boarded up and with graffiti-style hip-hop murals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-campaigning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk\/WP25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}