A note to our people - we need you.
Our beloved local pub, Ariadne’s, haunt to a host of musicians, home to talented artists and Latimer Road’s finest and not-so-finest, is at risk of closure.
Here’s where you come in…
Cutting right to it, UK Investments (a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs) want more.
This website has been set up by the community to save Ariadne’s Nectar. Our pub’s challenge epitomises the ongoing commercialisation of our neighbourhood and its broader counterparts.
We are facing closure and if we let these scumbags get their way, Latimer Road would lose the last of its true grit and charm, and, God forbid, people might even go sober.
Community is what we’re about.
To read the story, scroll down.
Let us show you how important this pub is!
The one and only….Dimitri
The Clash, The Gorrillaz, Blur…
Ariadne’s Nectar has been here for the renowned artists and residents of Latimer/ Ladbroke Grove. Above anything, it is a place for the people.
It’s been family-owned since 1988, run by a Greek man called Demetri and this is is letter:
Dear all, the public house restaurant of 274 Latimer Road has been facing another attempt by recent landlords, UK Investments, and North Shore Hedgefunds specialising in London’s property speculation affiliated and subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. This time around, I the current tenant, Demetri Kodsakis cannot face the legal costs, so I am putting it out to the local community to support a legal motion for a compulsory purchase order.
That would legally require a local authority to front it in court. So with rescuing Ariadne’s Nectar Group / Forum, we would like to invite local support to convince RBKC, as a first hurdle, to represent the local community in court.
Bearing in mind that this has already been nominated by RBKC as a community asset value. It would be councillors meeting by 20th October to consider our request.
The group has already secured funds for the legal course and eventual agenda, court probable purchase of the freehold.
Our aim is to preserve the public house for the community as a necessary amenity, considering London’s very few pubs left in the local borough.
The pub, which has been a central part of the community, has been here since 1888, with myself, Demetri running it for 20 years.
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We want this pub to continue.
Our deadline is March 2022.
Support.
Sign, sing, do whatever you can...
This is a community movement. We don’t need cash, we need support from the council to front this legal motion.
Do what you’re most comfortable with, whether that’s contributing time to help achieve our goals or energy to put political pressure on our governments to change.
