The 'Nut' always has been associated with...erm...elements of the community who have their own 'vested interests', and those 'interests' have not always been for the benefit of the community.
The link between Poverty and drugs is well known, and until the 'authorities' change their attitude from
"there is money in Hainault, so I don't think throwing money at the problem will solve it" to
"yes there is poverty in Hainault, the schools need investment, there is high unemployment, little to no job prospects, and the youth need to be engaged in a direct and meaningful way, so as not to end up on the receiving end of a two year custodial sentence for dealing cocaine in the Alfreds Head"
Unless that happens, the reopening of the 'Nut' will go the same way as it has done for the past 30 years, and no amount of 'new management' will change this.
Family Pub?, the drugs will be hidden in the pram!, call me a cynic, but a pub makeover will not change 30 years of poverty, youth unemployment, lack of housing, lack of ambition, little to no prospects, drug / alcohol abuse and onto dealing.
I suspect the 'Nut' will eventually go the same way as The Badger, The Old Hainault Oak, The British Legion and the Docklands Settlement Site.
Stringing it out will only prolong the misery.
