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Family-run Devon pub saved from housing plan wins award

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A man called Lee Wheaton stands outside a pub called the New Fountain Inn, where he is landlord. He is wearing a black T-shirt and is holding a framed certificate. He has a dark beard and short black hair.

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Devon pub saved from housing development wins Camra award

Overview

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.

Key points

  • 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.
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