Pub Industry Gets New Code Of Conduct

By Gerard Tubb, Sky News Correspondent

Plans to save more pubs from closing as a result of high rents will be published by the Government today.

A new code of practice will be brought in to protect licensees in tied pubs that are owned by the six biggest pub companies.

An independent adjudicator will be appointed with the power to investigate and settle disputes between tenants and their landlord.

The Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland, who leads the all-party save the pub group, has campaigned for the legislation to stop what he calls wholly unacceptable rents.

"The problem here is the large pub companies in this country are based on a business model of taking more than is fair and reasonable in pub profits," he said.

"The code will address that, and the key phrase is the Government have committed that a tied licencee will not be worse off than a free-of-tie licencee."

At the Devonshire Arms in the affluent village of Dore in Sheffield's commuter belt, licencee Tina Gage says the new code can't come soon enough.

The pub is a bustling community hub, but she says her landlord charges £150,000 each year for rent and the drink she sells, leaving her with no salary at all.

"There's no other business in the world where you'd rent a building off somebody and they'd force you to buy their product," she said.

Ten years after taking on the lease she has won a rent reduction after going to court, but says unless she makes a profit soon, this year will be her last behind the bar.

"I've got to try to turn it road this year or I will have to call it a day," she warned.

"And if I go, someone else will come in and take the pub and the same thing will happen to them."

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