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Sort file:- Maidstone, February, 2022.

Page Updated Maidstone:- Thursday, 24 February, 2022.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1960s

 Parkwood Tavern

Demolished 2007

Wallis Avenue

Maidstone

Parkwood Tavern

Above photo, date unknown.
Parkwood Tavern 2006

Above photo 2006.
Parkwood Estate

Above photo, showing the Parkwood Estate, date unknown.

 

The Parkwood Tavern, Wallis Ave, Parkwood, Maidstone at its junction with Penfold Close, was built in the early 1960's for the Parkwood Council estate and demolished in 2007 to make way for more housing.

The pub was shut following a drugs raid in December 2005 and stayed that way until it was eventually knocked down and turned into flats.

On the 3rd January 2006 "Rat on a rat," was the welcome regulars got when they walked past the Parkwood Tavern on Tuesday. A police officer in a cherry picker draped the potentially discouraging banner over the front of the pub, which used to sit on the corner of Penfold Close and Wallis Avenue in Park Wood estate.

It was marketed as Regeneration of Parkwood Estate, Maidstone, Kent by the purchase of a redundant pub on a housing estate and obtained consent for 26 affordable homes.

 

From http://www.kentonline.co.uk

Police shut pub after drug swoop.

POLICE have closed the Parkwood Tavern public house in Maidstone following what they describe as a "successful operation" to combat drugs.

Officers visited the establishment last Thursday evening and carried out searches which resulted in the pub being temporarily shut down under the Anti-Social Behaviour Act.

Officers attended Sittingbourne Magistrates' Court on Friday to apply for a three-month closure order.

The case was adjourned until December 29 when it will be heard at Mid Kent Magistrates' Court. The pub will remain closed in the meantime.

During the raid two people, a man and a woman, were arrested for possession of drugs and theft. They were later cautioned for the offences.

The pub was sealed with steel shutters and a closure notice was affixed to the front of the property.

On the same evening, other public houses within the Maidstone and Malling area were visited and checked.

The "Harrow" public house in Ulcombe, near Maidstone, was closed by officers as it did not have a proper licence to operate.

 

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