Opening for spurs game fingers crossed needs a lot of work doing

Great news if true but as you say, hell of a job getting that place open in 2 months. Been allowed to become a real eyesore.

A lot of work ?

It needs a bomb.

Bit of windowlene, a vacuum and the flick of a feather duster will see it ready

Funkydrummer wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:05 pm

A lot of work ?

It needs a bomb.

My Mrs uses 'bombs' in the bath, she swears by them for a refreshing clean

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:09 pm

My Mrs uses 'bombs' in the bath, she swears by them for a refreshing clean

Too much information !

By opening, does that mean someone is making the one sensible decision and knocking the eyesore down?

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:09 pm

My Mrs uses 'bombs' in the bath, she swears by them for a refreshing clean

You wanna be having a word with ya Mrs if she's dropping bombs in the bath

Get Barnfield on it, be open in no time.

NottsClaret wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:13 pm

Get Barnfield on it, be open in no time.

Aye, when Nelson gets his eye back !

From owners website and what was submitted to planning dept. From Mar 19 so not sure these plans are still being proposed.

claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:13 pm

You wanna be having a word with ya Mrs if she's dropping bombs in the bath

It will be ok small chain have it landlord a Blackpool fan

Jazz2013 wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:27 pm

It will be ok small chain have it landlord a Blackpool fan

Heineken (as Star Pubs) were the one letting it not so long ago.

Blindtigar inns I think got it

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:19 pm

web_groovy_-kind_of_love_bath_bomb_harajuku_shop_2018.jpg
web_peachy_bath_bomb_spring_2019.jpg

I can get bubbles and a fragrant aroma in the bath without one of them

Goobs wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 4:55 pm

I can get bubbles and a fragrant aroma in the bath without one of them

So can the wife

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:12 pm

By opening, does that mean someone is making the one sensible decision and knocking the eyesore down?

It’s not the first time you have said this tony, can i ask why, I live close by, and was a regular, along with some of your relatives by the way, and can’t wait for the day it reopens, let’s hope it’s true, we don’t want to see another pub lost

It will open but simply won’t last without a huge investment and serving half decent food.

My local shut recently and it’s amazing how many people complained on Facebook and said it was their local and they were gutted yet I never saw them in there.

Burnley1989 wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:08 pm

It will open but simply won’t last without a huge investment and serving half decent food.

My local shut recently and it’s amazing how many people complained on Facebook and said it was their local and they were gutted yet I never saw them in there.

Thats always the way ...

Reasonably priced good quality real ale/lager
Reasonably priced good quality fresh/homemade food
Comfortable seating areas
Genuinely friendly and helpful staff
Spotlessly clean toilets

It isn't rocket science is it

Good luck to whoever takes it on

Turfytop wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:01 pm

It’s not the first time you have said this tony, can i ask why, I live close by, and was a regular, along with some of your relatives by the way, and can’t wait for the day it reopens, let’s hope it’s true, we don’t want to see another pub lost

Can you ask why? Have you seen the state of it?

It was my first ever local but it has long since had its day. The building is in a shocking state.

It’ll do well for 20ish days in a year

It’s how it does the remaining 340days that’ll decide it’s fate

wilks_bfc wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:16 pm

It’ll do well for 20ish days in a year

It’s how it does the remaining 340days that’ll decide it’s fate

Thornton Arms just up the road seems to do well enough

Mala591 wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:38 pm

Reasonably priced good quality real ale/lager
Reasonably priced good quality fresh/homemade food
Comfortable seating areas
Genuinely friendly and helpful staff
Spotlessly clean toilets

It isn't rocket science is it

Good luck to whoever takes it on

Are you buying it, lad?

As others have said, it probably needs to do decent grub at affordable prices to have a chance. Not enough people going out drinking these days to keep a decent sized place like that going on beer sales alone.

Hope it's a success to many pubs closing.

fanzone wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:02 pm

Thornton Arms just up the road seems to do well enough

Yes it does
But that’s because it does decent food and is decent for functions, and that’s my point.

Park View need to do something that gets punters through the door Sunday to Friday.

wilks_bfc wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:30 pm

Park View need to do something that gets punters through the door Sunday to Friday.

And that will be very difficult. Only chance it has is if they build a good reputation for serving food and there’s a hell of a lot of competition.

looks like its happening
https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/lan ... LHhSjOUUdo

Can you copy and paste, I must have used the 2 credits up on the website.

I'll be amazed if they can get it open for the beginning of March with the state it's in.

No mention of food and the last paragraph seems to suggest that they did away with the idea of serving food because they couldn't find the right person to run the pub.
Be interesting to see how long it lasts. Makes you wonder if they have done their research. They mention the locals a lot. It will have to be examplary to make a do in my opinion. I hope it does but i have my doubts.

FactualFrank wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 4:36 pm

Can you copy and paste, I must have used the 2 credits up on the website.

A landmark Burnley pub, that has been closed for more than two years, is to re-open in March.

Work on a £110,000 refurbishment starts on February 17th and the doors to the new look Park View are due to open in March.

The iconic pub, opposite Turf Moor, has been taken over by Heineken owned Star Pubs and Bars and North West pub operators Blind Tiger Inns.

In an announcement today the company said the Park View will be transformed into a 'great quality community local specialising in sports and entertainment.'

And the re-opening, on Friday, March 6th, will be in time for the Burnley vs Tottenham match the next day.

Ten new jobs will be created and experienced Lancashire licensee Tony Shirley, who has 20 years experience in the trade, will be at the helm.

The outside of the building will be fully renovated and new signage and lighting added. Subject to licensing permission, it is hoped to create a stunning garden at the front with a spacious patio, festoon lighting, a pagoda and planting, as well as an outside bar stocking draught beers to meet demand on Turf Moor match days.

The interior revamp will give the Park View a bright contemporary look, whilst retaining the pub’s traditional charm and welcoming feel. The décor will pay homage to Burnley with photos tracing the town’s history, pictures of local points of interest and maps on the walls.

There will be a lounge area with soft seating and a vault bar, complete with a stage for live music acts and sports viewings. The refurbishment aims to put the Park View on the map with sports enthusiasts and give them a fantastic live sports experience. The project will install BT and Sky Sports and a high spec audiovisual system with eight high definition screens including a giant screen and three TV screens in bookable booths.

A new pool table and darts board will enable customers to get in on the sporting action and Tony is hoping to start up Park View teams.

The new Park View will be hosting live music nights and hopes to showcase talent from across East Lancashire. The Park View will stock a wide selection of drinks, offering wine and spirits menus with a focus on gins and rums, quality coffee, beers spanning premium lagers
and cask ales and the ever popular 'benny and hot.'

A cellar overhaul and the installation of state-of-the art dispense equipment will ensure consistently excellent draft beers and ciders and Tony plans to seek Cask Marque accreditation for the pub.

Describing the Park View as 'iconic' Tony said: " There has been lots of interest in its future.

"This refurbishment is just what it needs to bring it back to life. We can’t wait to open the doors and welcome the community in again.

"We’ll be going all out to cater for the needs of Clarets fans and create a party atmosphere for them on match days. We look forward to showing them Turf Moor’s new local at the Tottenham game.”

David Pritchard, who is the Star Pubs and Bars operations director for Lancashire said it had taken time to find the right operator for the Park View but described Blind Tiger Inns as 'perfect' saying: "They have a fantastic track record for creating popular North West locals and have won awards for their sports facilities and community credentials.

"Their vision for the Park View is really exciting and will give local residents and Turf Moor the great quality pub they deserve.”

Star Pubs and Bars acquired the Park View from Punch Taverns in 2018 and since then has been keen to re-open it and make it into a viable business.

Original plans to change the whole feel of the pub by bringing in food, catering for children and making substantial structural alterations were abandoned as the company was unable to recruit a licensee to work with.

Mr Pritchard added: "Blind Tiger Inns approach will upgrade the Park View throughout and provide locals with the quality experience they want, whilst retaining the pub’s traditional character.

" Given the nature of the new scheme and its traditional feel, keeping the pub’s original name, for which it is known in the area, was considered the most appropriate option."

Somethingfishy wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 4:51 pm

No mention of food and the last paragraph seems to suggest that they did away with the idea of serving food because they couldn't find the right person to run the pub.

I think no food on offer will be a big problem with regard to getting folk in midweek.

Fair enough though, if they couldn't find anyone to cater for that, but its far from ideal.

I hate that pub i always found it a ballache to get served in there,wrong time to be reopening when the football season is nearly ended.....£100,000 is a lot to be chucking at that pub,by the looks off it £100,000 is nowhere near enough.....good luck though.

As others have said without doing food its gonna be hard for them. But if its clean, decent beer, good place for watching sport and ahalf decent beer garden they've got a chance. Think the key is tempting the locals in through the week to keep them ticking over.

Not many if any pubs from Thornton arms to the miners, and a massive catchment area, and on a bus route too.

Get sky sports, pool teams, darts teams etc, serve food, decent beer at decent prices.

If done right itll make a do

MACCA wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:32 pm

Not many if any pubs from Thornton arms to the miners, and a massive catchment area, and on a bus route too.

Get sky sports, pool teams, darts teams etc, serve food, decent beer at decent prices.

If done right itll make a do

They all try that Macca,and most fail,should have been demolished and we could have had a fan zone tent on there.

As long as it's not a dump and has plenty of screens showing the footy it will do fine on a matchday, and may even tempt a few people out of the fan zone. Not sure why anyone wants to stand in a tent in a car park drinking before a game anyway, but each his own.

Steve1956 wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:17 pm

I hate that pub i always found it a ballache to get served in there,wrong time to be reopening when the football season is nearly ended.....£100,000 is a lot to be chucking at that pub,by the looks off it £100,000 is nowhere near enough.....good luck though.

Euros in the summer, so could do well if it's ran well with good prices.

Steve1956 wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:49 pm

They all try that Macca,and most fail,should have been demolished and we could have had a fan zone tent on there.

Surprised the club didn't buy it and just open it on matchdays.

Spijed wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:56 pm

Surprised the club didn't buy it and just open it on matchdays.

Everytime the club enquired the brewery jacked the price up apparently.

So it isn't going to be 'The Kilby Tavern' but 'The Park View' after a clean up and refit.

I wish them well but outside of matchday trade, I'm not sure.

JohnMac wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 6:01 pm

So it isn't going to be 'The Kilby Tavern' but 'The Park View' after a clean up and refit.

I wish them well but outside of matchday trade, I'm not sure.

So they seem, essentially, to have used Barry Kilby's name as some sort of cheap publicity stunt?

Very poor

Eloise Laws wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 7:10 pm

https://blindtigerinns.co.uk/our-pubs/

The Broadfield Arms looks nice, if they can get it anything like that.

jrgbfc wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 4:39 pm

I'll be amazed if they can get it open for the beginning of March with the state it's in.

Youve obviously never watched 60 minute makeover....

Steve1956 wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:49 pm

They all try that Macca,and most fail,should have been demolished and we could have had a fan zone tent on there.

The problem is they try for 3 months and it slips.

I've seen a couple of bars who set up in difficult times when "youd be mad to open a bar up nowadays" however they know what they do, do it great, and theyve got bigger and bigger and better and better

Look good