THE furore over the pub plan for Castle Hill has sparked more letters in the Examiner than any other subject in recent memory.
This photograph from Examiner reader Robert Holmes captures the tower rising alone from the mist on a winter’s morning.
In times past it would, of course, have had the pub next to it but the tower has been a solitary sight on the landscape since the pub was demolished amid a planning row in 2005.
The Thandi Partnership has submitted a planning application to build a pub similar to the original and it has certainly divided Huddersfield with strong opinions both for and against.
This is the Thandis’ third attempt to get permission for a new pub and councillors will discuss it in the coming weeks, but no matter what happens some people will end up bitterly disappointed at the eventual decision.
Robert, of Skelmanthorpe, is managing director of joinery company Roebuck and Holmes which is based at Farnley Tyas so Castle Hill is a familiar sight each day.
“I think there should be a pub on Castle Hill,” he said. “I have fond memories of visiting the former one in the 1970s.”
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