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New management at the Anchor - Local (17th Oct 2023 - 18:32:23) Just heard that there is a change in management at the Anchor. Hopefully new people will be more community minded is the parking restrictions still in force, if you can park and pop in for a coffee or something it makes sense but also park and get a paper or something such a large car park they should think helping people can bring them back for food or a drink in the evening. Used to go quite regularly but not since they made parking a problem.hope they get it back to the great place it was before.

Re: New management at the Anchor - AF (17th Oct 2023 - 20:33:06) Why should the Anchor provide free parking for people not using the establishment. There are plenty of other places to park.

Re: New management at the Anchor - er (18th Oct 2023 - 00:18:29) The parking at the Anchor is free for customers if you enter your reg. Job done! I'm not saying I don't miss the old days of a free for all but it's not that kind of world anymore, we're lucky to have lived here while it was still a village, we saw the last of the old world here, this is part of the new way in most busy places now.

Re: New management at the Anchor - resident (18th Oct 2023 - 05:11:49) Because part of the car park was left for the use of village but GK ignored it

Re: New management at the Anchor - Another resident (18th Oct 2023 - 07:41:21) People hardly park at the Anchor and then go shopping for the day!! We don't have enough shops! Most people who park there are nipping to the paper shop, the travel agent, for a quick coffee or back in the day, to the bank... So all the businesses in the Square have suffered to some degree. There always seemed to be spare parking. The Anchor used to have the community at its heart, but it stopped with the last landlord.

Re: New management at the Anchor - Joe (18th Oct 2023 - 08:15:30) Left by whom? I am sure that if someone else had owned part of the Greene King car park and bequeathed it to “ the community of Liphook “ there would official records somewhere. Who owned the pub before Greene King ? I do not know.

Re: New management at the Anchor - WENDY MARTIN (18th Oct 2023 - 08:59:58) Its easy to park, and leave your car number at the bar. And the food is really good. We had a roast there last Sunday and it was delicious. The staff were helpful and friendly, and the place was clean . So before you knock it, so ruining their business, give it a try.

Re: New management at the Anchor - Local (18th Oct 2023 - 10:02:12) When the Anchor was at its best you had a job getting a table and the bar was heaving three barmen flat out. The car park nearly full but no restrictions it’s still a community pub with a large car park it’s down to a good landlord to monitor the car park if someone abuses it ie parking all day a quiet word should be enough. Not a parking firm handing out fines doesn’t go down well in our community we aren’t a city. We still have a wonderful community feeling in liphook let’s try and keep it that way.

Re: New management at the Anchor - Penny Williamson (18th Oct 2023 - 14:57:49) We are lucky enough to have free car parks in Liphook all within walking distance of shops unlike Alton, Farnham, Petersfield, Guildford etc, so there is no reason for people to use the Anchor Car Park. In addition there is parking allowed up to, I believe, 2hrs on Station Road.

Re: New management at the Anchor - Sam (18th Oct 2023 - 20:09:31) Essentially this post about someone wanting to park for free again on other peoples property without contributing to the owners business at all… and not much else

Re: New management at the Anchor - Lifetime Resident (19th Oct 2023 - 10:03:21) I think it’s more about getting the Anchor to be like it was community minded not like a city pub . It all worked before very well and the place was booming. Compromise I think if some local businesses would like to park there all day perhaps they could pay the car park is large enough as someone has said down to a good manager not heavy handed fines . Other businesses are very much involved in the community that’s what liphooks all about, so many volunteers and organisations doing a fantastic job don’t let’s loose it . It’s in the centre of our lovely village and it’s still a village mentality. Yes parking has become a problem so many more cars and no more car parks and the ones we have quite often full up midhurst road one sometimes because of the new cinema not knocking it it’s great for liphook. So that comes back to the Anchor perhaps being more community minded and seeing the advantages.

Re: New management at the Anchor - Sam (19th Oct 2023 - 17:10:07) As I already stated, its about parking for free without going into the pub at all to apply any of your own reciprocal "community spirit" by using your wallet. Don't twist it by dragging volunteers and organizations, just fess up, you're on here already scoring negative points of a local business just because you cant park for free. Yet free parking is still fully available if you just went into the pub... case closed What next? they owe you a free pint every so often as its "community spirit" ?

Re: New management at the Anchor - Born here (19th Oct 2023 - 18:58:36) Sorry Sam don’t agree if you go back when Jez ran it , it was a great place to go no problems with parking very little agro . So why a problem now if it worked then why not now . It’s gone down hill in the last few months why when other pubs in liphook seem to be thriving they have the prime position to capitalise on . Perhaps green king need to take a long hard look at the problem..

Re: New management at the Anchor - Sam (19th Oct 2023 - 22:08:53) I don't give a hoot about who runs it, ran it or whatever, am never in it as its a dump. In all my replies am solely talking about about the free car parking moan which as myself and others pointed out is nonsense. Attempting to articulate that the business is showing no community spirit because it decided to chase away some car parking freeloaders from its own property yet still permitted you to park entirely for free if you showed it a bit of custom is absurd. We get it, its not how is used to be and given your name its likely us newbies to the village are also to blame in your eyes. The world doesn't allocate any greater rights or authority to the length of time you have lived somewhere, and if you hadn't made so many silly moans about missing your free car parking (which still exists if you just popped your head inside the pubs doors) then I wouldn't have commented. Whatever that entitled thought pattern is in your head is limiting your ability to post a rational point of view, its not rational at all, your wanting things they way you want them without a single thought both the business and property owners thoughts on it, and that indicates the type of person you are... which you then multiply with your name to garner some fake authority over the rest of us whom all know that the PARKING IS FREE FOR CUSTOMERS... and your not one of them

Re: New management at the Anchor - Born here (19th Oct 2023 - 22:53:21) Hope you feel better Sam after that rant . You call it a dump it wasn’t so that says it all happy newbie’ .

Re: New management at the Anchor - Ian (20th Oct 2023 - 07:34:05) Oh Sam, do calm down dear!

Re: New management at the Anchor - M (20th Oct 2023 - 08:52:01) I'd be mighty surprised if the decision to install cameras and restrict parking at The Anchor was anything to do with the on site management of the pub, 100% certain it would be a head office decision. Managers of a pub like The Anchor will have no say on what drinks they serve, food they serve, layout of pub, advertising of the pub, maintenance of the pub etc. let alone installing cameras and fining non customer parking. It is a shame the pub has lost it's direction but decades of under investment and poor management (by the head office) has resulted in what we have now. It would be nice if the profits they make from building houses in the pub grounds, if they get permission, were spent on the pub but I very much doubt it. Imagine they will go into paying dividends to the Asian investment company that owns Green King? So much for a local community pub!

Re: New management at the Anchor - Local (20th Oct 2023 - 09:59:01) Sam, you made a topical point, in your opinion the world doesn't allocate any greater rights or authority to the length of time you have lived somewhere. I thought I'd like to examine that claim. The UN itself recognises and supports native rights for those of non European heritage over large parts of the world based upon the principle of first nation, the theory being that European newcomers are taking or have taken away lands that don't belong to them, based on nothing more than relative power. Even in America and Australia there are very well supported movements to take land back from curren inhabitants and return it to descendents of previous inhabitants on the basis that the interlopers are new citizens, having only lived there a few hundred years, newcomers are detracting from the old ways of life. I take it you consider all these movements to be utter nonsense then! In Liphook, a large percentage of the local inhabitants can no longer afford to live here and their children are moving away, they are powerless to stop it, complaints are ridiculed or ignored, newcomers with comparably more money are moving in from the cities and elsewhere, able to afford the inflated house prices, thus pricing out many of the locals. Does this sound familiar because at root the same principle is at work? All land that has changed hands throughout history has been taken away from others by relative power, (force, influence, money etc), in this context some of the older residents think it's a shame how much is changing in the old village and how fast. Is there any validity to any of these arguments, here or any where else, I wonder?

Re: New management at the Anchor - Joe (20th Oct 2023 - 10:35:03) We do have other pubs - the Green Dragon has a car park not as big as the Anchor why not try using that as a “community car parking space” from now on? It would be really good for trade if locals doing their shopping there filled up spaces and there was nowhere for patrons to park? I think we should be grateful that in Liphook the local authority car park is still free and also Sainsbury's have an hour and a half free usually that is not so far to walk. Now here’s a thought - local why don’t you walk if you are “local” ?

Re: New management at the Anchor - Local one (20th Oct 2023 - 11:15:35) Joe how do you no we don’t walk, it’s the odd times that people want to use the park just to buy a paper or something like that. The other pubs have signs patrons only simple polite notice and they aren’t in the centre of our village with a huge car park. As a lot of people have said it’s a shame that it’s come to this heavy handed way . It was such a lovely place to go for a drink and a bite to eat at a reasonable price. How times have changed not for the better sadly.

Re: New management at the Anchor - Sam (20th Oct 2023 - 13:46:09) Your googled up tangent involving the UN is exactly what I expected from someone unable or unwilling to use their own name on a local forum so Ill refine it for you. 1. When you can’t use your real first name then why should any of us consider your posts at all? 2. When you do use a name like "local" or "born here" you’re using to add some non-existent authority within the local area. No need to involve the UN with this one, am quite sure the UN won’t be sending troops so you can park your car on someone else’s property. Now whilst I could be wrong about point 2 you enforce it by presenting local inhabitants as suffering due to influx of newcomers being richer, you’re admitting you discriminate against new people. You discriminate again by generalizing all newcomers as more affluent. Tell me local, if you get a new neighbor that wasn’t born here, and they are not in any way affluent which discriminatory pigeonhole do you allocate them into? Parking at the Anchor is FREE, you just need to pop your head into the pub, no need to badmouth a local business and claim its not showing any community spirit. Id argue that that discriminating against your neighbor based entirely and only on how long they resided here or how affluent they are is lacking in community spirit.

Re: New management at the Anchor - Joe (20th Oct 2023 - 14:00:13) Local property prices in the whole area are high Haslemere has far higher house prices than Liphook. It is the case everywhere that if you do not earn enough and then you cannot get a mortgage to buy you have to move to where you can afford to buy. It is unreasonable to expect property prices to stay low just because some of your immediate family cannot get a big enough mortgage. Have you ever asked them to get retrained for a better paying employment or to gain further qualifications to boost their earning power? Also the Green Dragon is in the centre of the village, just has a smaller car park.

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