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Date of photo: 2013	Picture source: Colin Price
The Valentine was situated at 27-37 Perth Road. This pub closed in February 2017.
Plans to demolish a "beautiful piece of historical architecture" in Gants Hill and build a 10-storey modular block of student accommodation in its place have been given the green light. The Valentine, in Perth Road, closed in February, 2017, and was sold to a real estate company for more than £5million. Construction company Tide Construction Limited withdrew its initial plans to demolish the 1930s former pub building last year, but the latest plans to knock the pub down and build 321 student rooms were approved by Redbridge Council's planning committee on Wednesday, November 20. Despite the approval, campaigners have put forward fresh plans to ask the developer to include a music and arts venue as part of the scheme, or find an alternative site for the accommodation. In the design statement, the applicant said the former public house has been vacant since 2017 and its location as a "prominent vacant building has attracted people to occupy it on an unlawful basis". Most of the new student rooms, priced "affordably" at £170 per week, will be self-contained, but some will use a shared kitchen. The scheme is not aimed at one particular university, but the architect for the site said developers would be investing £30million in the project and had carried out sufficient market research. Some 200 residents have signed petitions to save the "iconic" landmark from demolition. Paul Scott, who co-founded the Save the Valentine campaign in 2018, said: "It would involve the demolition of an iconic heritage structure which is valued by local social groups.
Ilford Recorder (December 2019)
This pub was demolished in January 2020.
Colin Price (January 2020)
A 10-storey modular block of student accommodation has been built on the site and is now in operation
Colin Price (June 2021)
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Date of photo: 2017	Picture source: Colin Price
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Site of The Valentine, 2021	Picture source: Colin Price