How long has this place been empty? Three years or more?
How greedy is the landlord to have kept this lovely site unused for so long because he wants an inflated rent? How much rent has he lost out on in these three years by keeping the place empty? A significant sum I would imagine.
It makes me so angry that his greed has held back a lovely community restaurant from developing on that site. What makes it worse is that he's allowed it to be transformed into a run-down crumby looking eyesore for that past year too. You could say the same for the Honor Oak pub.
What the hell is going on nowadays? Is there absolutely no responsibility to be taken by landlords? Are they so selfish that they don't think that they have any responsibility to a local community?