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Rent event: Star previously argued RPI rent increases constitute a tenant rent assessment or review unsuccessfully during an arbitration but chose not to appeal the eventual award Heineken’s pub arm, Star Pubs and Bars, has retracted a policy stating RPI rent increases constitute a tenant rent assessment or review, according to an announcement by the industry regulator. As outlined by the pubs code, tenants have the right to a code rent assessment proposal (RAP) if there has been no rent assessment during the previous five years.  However, according to an update...

Heineken boss Dolf van den Brink, who only took charge of the group last year, now plans to cut around 10 per cent of the group's 85,000-strong global workforce.

MORE than 50 people attended a virtual meeting to rally behind the tenants of a pub who could be evicted in March. Tenants Sharon and David Halstead, from the Wilpshire Hotel, Whalley Road, Wilpshire, had approached owners Enterprise Inns (EI Group) to change their lease. They tried to convert their tied tenancy to a ‘free of tie’ arrangement in line with the terms of the Pubs Code, which requires the pub operators to offer a ‘market rent’-only option to tenant landlords and landladies. In doing so, the couple said, the pub is freed from the beer levy charged by the pub compan...

Paul Crossman says that market-rent-only tenants are less profitable for large breweries and pub owners and so are viewed by them with ambivalence, at best.For campaigners and publicans who spent

REGIONAL David and Sharon Halstead tried to secure a new lease but have been told they will be evicted in March LANDLORDS of a closure-threatened pub are trying to rally as many people as possible to attend a virtual meeting to support them so they can still stay in charge. Tenants Sharon and David Halstead, from the Wilpshire Hotel, in Blackburn, had approached owners Enterprise Inns (EI Group) to change their lease. They said it was necessary to keep the pub viable during difficult times for industry with coronavirus shutdowns massively affecting turnover. They tried to convert the...