A REGULATORY committee of Kennet planners could decide the fate of one of Wiltshire's most historic inns on 12 August.
An application to close the Crown at Everleigh and develop the area for housing has met with significant opposition since it was first floated.
Tidworth garrison commander Colonel Carron Snagge, in a letter to the planners on behalf the Tidworth Care Community Partnership, said that conversion to residential use should be 'the last and not the first resort'.
The inn was once home to the well known hanging judge, Judge Jeffries, who dispensed merciless justice to the supporters of the Duke of Monmouth following the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685.
Latterly it also developed into a music venue, which attracted legendary Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green, but a plan for Van Morrison to play the venue was never realised.
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