Leeds: How can pubs be safeguarded?

With pubs continuing to close across the country, what do you think should be done to help safeguard them, and how important are they to communities?

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00:00I think they are fairly important yes, I wouldn't know how to safeguard them to be honest, more public transport maybe.

00:07Especially pubs with significant importance in the community, especially very old pubs.

00:15I think for example like the one behind us maybe needs like for example the blue plaque initiative to keep them safeguarded.

00:22I think the smoking ban has got a lot to do with it still, a lot of people like to smoke, you know a lot of people like to vape

00:28and not having that facility on the premises is you know it's killing it.

00:32I do think it's just part of the cost of living, people aren't being paid enough at the moment and then

00:38it's making it more difficult for pubs to stay up because less customers are coming in.

00:41Especially small-owned family-owned pubs have become a bit more of a rarity, you see a lot of them like

00:46more of them being bought by like like Green King and Beefeet and those kind of guys as well and

00:50they kind of lose that authenticity and that like that community feel and they become more,

00:54I don't want to say corporate, I don't know the words, I'm more like franchise and then they lose their soul,

00:58they lose their, their charm.