Westminster Council issued an enforcement notice to CTLX which required them to “recreate in facsimile the building as it stood immediately prior to its demolition”. James Watson, the pub protection adviser for the Campaign for Pubs, who advised campaigners, said: “I never imagined that I would see a planning inspector order a developer to put back what he’d just knocked down, to look exactly as it was.
"I thought the developer would get a slap on the wrist, a £6,000 fine. But I was flabbergasted – and it has set an incredibly useful precedent. Other planning inspectors will remember it, and so will developers.” The pub was built back 'brick by brick' and six years after being demolished the boozer's new owners Tom Rees and Ben Martin reopened its doors once again. Fixtures and fittings that were in the original pub were salvaged from the rubble to help the interior look the same as it was before.