Sadly the brewery that owned it sold it to a speculator that had no interest in the pub trade, purely the potential development opportunity the pub and its land presented. Not prepared to allow the only eating pub in the village to be turned into housing, the local community objected to the development and made the pub 'an asset of community value.'
Thanks to local objections and community effor
t, the speculator's planning applications were eventually unsuccessful and all appeals were finally exhausted. Thanks to a dedicated group of locals and the generosity of our wider group of greater than 300 investors, The Three Tuns was successfully purchased at the end of 2018 and following a huge community effort, was renovated and re-opened in the summer of 2019.