A foreign developer who tore down a much-loved London pub to make way for posh flats has been ordered to rebuild it ‘brick by brick’.

The move has been cheered on social media by Londoners sick of seeing historic buildings demolished to make way for expensive flats.

The owners, who are based in Tel Aviv, ordered in bulldozers without permission and reduced the Carlton Tavern building to rubble – having told pub staff to stay at home for a stock take.

For those interested, photos/vids from Carlton Tavern demolition on 08/04/15 now on Flickr: https://t.co/AuJ2UP33jl pic.twitter.com/zVlowl8qc1 — maar pinite (@maarpinite) April 11, 2015

For those interested, photos/vids from Carlton Tavern demolition on 08/04/15 now on Flickr: https://t.co/AuJ2UP33jl pic.twitter.com/zVlowl8qc1 — maar pinite (@maarpinite) April 11, 2015

In the Carlton Tavern 1 of 3 flat-screen TVs left behind amongst personal momentos and framed images: https://t.co/ETSbNHDQqD — maar pinite (@maarpinite) April 9, 2015

Now council chiefs are to issue an enforcement notice to CLTX lt requiring to ‘recreate in facsimile the building as it stood immediately prior to its demolition.’




The order is scheduled to be approved next Tuesday – and is thought to be the first of its kind.

Robert Davis, deputy leader of Westminster Council, told the Evening Standard he had been ‘absolutely horrified’.

The much-loved Carlton Tavern before it was obliterated by the bulldozers (SWNS)