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Devon pub saved from housing development wins Camra award
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The New Fountain Inn in Whimple, Devon, which was saved from a 2020 housing and micro-pub plan by a village campaign and taken over by Lee Wheaton and his father Kevin, has won the Exeter & East Devon Camra Rural Pub of the Year award.
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- The New Fountain Inn in Whimple was previously threatened by a 2020 planning application to convert part of it into a micro-pub and build houses in the car park.
- A local village campaign fought to save the pub before Lee Wheaton and his father Kevin took over the closed venue in September 2022 and reopened it seven months later.
- The pub has now been named Rural Pub of the Year by Exeter & East Devon Campaign For Real Ale (Camra).
- Camra praised the pub for its welcome, quality of beer, ambience, and for being successfully saved from potential conversion into housing.