happy to see it demolished. "We want to know why this can't now be locally listed as I believe not including it in the first place was an oversight. "It is a lovely building inside and the hotel is well used by people on business and those visiting Watersmeet . If there is no hotel, the town will lose business. "This is a good building, it has got a lot of historic interest and it's a landmark - if we lose this we're not going to get it back. "If this is what the council want to do in Rickmansworth then let's pull the whole thing down and build Milton Keynes." Councillor Hiscocks also denies she has made up her mind about the application, saying she would accept a conversion to apartments provided the structure of the pub - formerly the Victoria Hotel - was protected. She said: "This is supposed to be a democracy but one officer has made the decision not to locally list it and there can be no appeals process. "This is a landmark building but I do not go in with a concrete frame of mind, I go into it with an opinion as any other councillor would. "I'm thinking about it no differently to how any other councillor would." In a statement, Mr Halls said: "Committee members who make objections to, and take a fixed stance on, a planning application prior to it coming to a committee meeting and who have firmly made up