As the Local Democracy Reporting Service reported in January, the Market Tavern pub had not “spontaneously” fallen down by itself – as the council claimed – but was demolished, despite a promise made to heritage campaigners that works would halt so a second opinion could be sought. The council claimed that a mistake – an error – happened and an internal investigation would be commissioned “in due course”.
56am “which unfortunately delayed subsequent communications”. The investigation found that: “Upon review, the return email from the contractor at 2.16pm detailed that, at this stage, the front façade had already come down due to their machinery touching it. “The investigation concluded that there was no consistency to those who were copied into the various emails and at no time in or around this crucial period were all the key parties informed at the same time of what was happening.