Controversial 72-capacity teepee in pub garden set to be removed

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A popular pub refused planning permission for alterations to its outside bar has revealed updated plans – minus a controversial 72-capacity teepee.

In the autumn, The Eagle and Child, Whalley Road, Ramsbottom had retrospective planning permission refused for permanent retention of a circular tented ‘teepee’, outside bar, pergola and toilet block.

The structures were erected during Covid pandemic and have been in operation ever since. The timber frame and UPVC teepee seats up to 72 people and was described by owners Daniel Thwaites as an ‘essential part of the business’.

Neighbours’ objections the the structure included noise, that the teepee was an ‘eyesore’ and that it ‘interrupts views across the valley to Holcombe Hill’.