Thousands of pounds worth of lead stolen from the Halfway House in Box

1:20pm Friday 27th July 2012 in News Photograph of the Author By Hayley Mortimer, Reporter

Thousands of pounds worth of lead stolen from the Halfway House in Box Thousands of pounds worth of lead stolen from the Halfway House in Box

THOUSANDS of pounds worth of lead has been stolen from the Halfway House in Box in broad daylight.

The incident happened between 10am and 3pm yesterday, Thursday, July 26.

All the lead has been stripped from the building, including huge sheets from the roof.

Damage has also been caused to the front of the pub, which is owned by Novalis Trust.

Natural stone tiles were also stolen from the nearby bus shelter and electric substation.

Jake Lukas, chief executive of Novalis Trust, said: "The pub is not completely closed and derelict. It is still used by staff and children from Cotswold Chine School.

"My worry is that people think it is easy pickings. It is very upsetting.

"We are asking the local community to be careful and remain vigilant."

Anyone with information should contact Gloucestershire Police on 101, quoting incident number 140 of July 26.

Comments(4)

chrisrainbow says...
8:17pm Fri 27 Jul 12

are they not trying to close this pub down?...mmmm, are you thinking what i am thinking?

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dimreepr says...
9:45am Wed 1 Aug 12

Wow, they really can’t win can they? The trust doesn’t need to resort to underhand tactics in order close the pub; they to own it so they get to decide.

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Charles Golightly says...
6:04pm Thu 2 Aug 12

What exactly are you thinking Chris?

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killalizard says...
2:38pm Mon 13 Aug 12

What most people are failing to realise in this situation is that the halfway house is being converted into a facility that the young people at the school AND the residents in the village can utilize selling general goods such as bread toilet roll and so on and also a cafe for locals and residents of the school. i think this conversion is a good thing and novalis trust are well within their rights to do so.

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