Bilston Magazine

16/07/2025

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01/07/2025

New Action Group Set Up to Challenge Planned Changes to Much Loved Local Pub

Regulars at a local pub have now set up a community action group to help their fight to stop the pub being turned into a Toby Carvery.

Local residents and customers at the Cleveland Arms in Stowheath Lane, held an official meeting to set up the Eastfield Community Action Group (ECAG) at the pub last week.

The group has been set up in response to plans by Mitchells & Butlers, who own the pub, to turn it into a Toby Carvery later this year.

The next step will be to apply through the City Council, to make the pub an Asset of Community Value.

The hope is that representatives of M & B will then agree to meet the group and listen to their concerns.

The new elected Chair of ECAG, Jane Hancock, says “It’s very disappointing that M & B won’t give us the courtesy of a face-to-face meeting. We feel that they should do this at the very least, seeing as we spend our hard-earned cash in this pub every week of the year.”

Jane has organised a petition to try and save the pub from these changes, with over 1400 people having signed so far.

Customers have also organised a protest to raise awareness of their plight.

The pub manager regularly organises events to support local charities such as the Good Shepherd and Compton Care. These would no longer take place if the changes go ahead, which would harm the charities that benefit.

MP Pat McFadden and local city councillors have all written to the owners, but the brewery have still not agreed to meet with anyone to discuss the situation.

Leader of the Conservatives in Wolverhampton, Simon Bennett, is keen to look into making the pub an Asset of Community Value.

Setting up ECAG will now allow an application for this to be made.

The pub was scheduled to close at the end of July, but this has now been delayed, although a new closure date hasn’t been revealed.

25/06/2025

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28/05/2025

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15/05/2025

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