Number 100, The High Street, formerly The Marlborough Deli, is about to become, once again, a “shop selling cold and hot food and drink with a small seating area.” The new proprietors are applying for a ‘premises licence’ to sell alcoholic drinks on and off the premises – Monday to Sunday 08.30am to 22.30pm.
After discussing this application at their Monday meeting, the town council planning committee deferred a decision until their next meeting on July 13.
Councillors did, however, ask the Town Clerk to report to Wiltshire Council’s enforcement officer that the shop’s brickwork had been painted blue – what one councillor called a ‘garish blue’. The brickwork had previously been painted grey. The building is Grade II listed.
The application for the licence is in the names of Illuminati Investments UK Ltd and Bay Leaf Ventures Ltd – both companies are registered in Gateshead. Bay Leaf Ventures was regsitered as a company in August 2013 and has one director – Mrs Aarti Kumar Roy.
The company that ran the Marlborough Deli – Marlborough Delicatessen Ltd – was set-up in October 2013 and has now been dissolved. The final ‘Notification of Strike-off Action’ was published in the London Gazette on June 4.
The company was owned jointly by Jason Kalen (who runs The Marlborough) and Mark Whiteley. Mr Whiteley resigned as a director in September last year and has also resigned from the company that owns The Marlborough.
100 High Street – the shop and the flats above – is owned by Nigel and Claire Bailey of Ogbourne Maizey who bought the lease in October 2013.
At present the shop’s windows are covered over and it is undergoing interior renovation.
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