[Drinking] Save the Battle of Trafalgar

[CHAPPERS]

https://www.change.org/p/e-i-group-plc-battle-to-save-the-battle-of-trafalgar-pub-brighton

Proper boozer about to be totally ruined.

This petition aims to stop the changes to 'The Battle of Trafalgar' pub on Guildford Road, just up from Brighton railway station. After many decades as a successful community based pub with a unique character it is going to be shut down, gutted and converted into a sports bar with multiple T.V screens.


The owners - Enterprise Inns - refused to renew the landlady's lease and despite the pub's popularity have decided to change its nature utterly. At the moment the pub is very much part of the community - a community centre, in fact. It's a small local business that has been grown by people who know and love the area. They have developed a clientele that reflects the diversity of the city centre - a clientele that actually talk to each other. This has been achieved by years of serving good food, good drink and simply being nice to people. This is all about to be swept away in a crude corporate makeover.


We've seen a lot of these corporate makeovers in Brighton and most of them have resulted in characterless pubs that are as empty as they are bland. There are already several 'sports bars' in the immediate area and the city centre doesn't need another one. Enterprise Inns have not informed or consulted the pub's customers - we do not seem to matter to them which is why I have started this petition to voice our concerns.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

signed and shared

 

[WATFORD zero]

Done

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Evil company wish them nothing but ill. Ruined many people’s lives

 

[Bold Seagull]

Had many a pre-match and post match celebratory pint or 2 in here. Duly signed.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Signed

 

[Thunder Bolt]

signed and shared

This.

 

[MattBackHome]

Signed. Even if it's only the second best Battle of Trafalgar in the city it's still worth saving

 

[Bakero]

Evil company wish them nothing but ill. Ruined many people’s lives

PubCos are the devil

 

[Napper]

sports bar with multiple screens ( hopefully a couple outside )

Sounds EXACTLY what is needed match days around Brighton station.

Sorry to say wont be signing

 

[Argartu]

Signed.

 

[Jack Straw]

Done.

 

[BBassic]

Signed. Love the Trafalgar. It's a great pub for an office lunch with that beer garden.

Not just that but imagine the impact a multi screen sports bar could have on the pubs around that area. Duke of Wellington, Caxton, Yeoman, Edinburgh. All nice and busy on a matchday.

 

[BBassic]

sports bar with multiple screens ( hopefully a couple outside )

Sounds EXACTLY what is needed match days around Brighton station.

Sorry to say wont be signing

Duke of Wellington.

Six screens, great food, lovely staff, excellent landlord & landlady.

Job done.

 

[luppers]

Signed

 

[Bodian]

One of my all-time favourite pubs.

 

[Bold Seagull]

sports bar with multiple screens ( hopefully a couple outside )

Sounds EXACTLY what is needed match days around Brighton station.

Sorry to say wont be signing

 

[oneillco]

The Lord Nelson down the road has already been half-ruined by smartening it up and constant piped loud music. The fools - if they turn it into another Railway Bell then they'll get the same sort of clientele, i.e. dodgy

 

[oneillco]

I signed the petition but also emailed Enterprise Inns politely asking them not to turn it into yet another vertical drinking sports bar. Here's their email address: https://www.eigroupplc.com/en/contact-us.html

 

[Pantani]

Very strange decision this from Enterprise, The Battle is always pretty busy, even on week night evenings so surely cannot be losing money. It isn't a big enough site to make an effective Sports Bar, one big screen and you are done, maybe four booths with TVs on top of that. If you are to revamp it the only option is a Gastropub given the size of the site, but there is one of those right opposite already, and an absolute shit ton in the city anyway. Currently The Battle occupies a niche that is not matched by that many pubs (and an ever decreasing number) in the city centre. This is a hugely stupid business decision by Enterprise, but anyone who has worked under their yoke would know that is not particularly surprising.