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UPDATED EVERY FRIDAY
Last Update:
Friday 28th January, 2005
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New Journal Enterprises, 2004.
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Neighbours call time on bar’s bid for late drinks
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Opposition mounts to 3am closing and doubling
capacity to 200
Bullet bar in Kentish Town |
IT is the self-styled funkiest bar in town, a trendy cocktail
lounge with leather sofas, supercool DJs, imported beers and a retro
table football machine.
But the Bullet bar in Kentish Town Road, Kentish Town, has left
neighbours unimpressed with its plans to stay open late all week.
Worried residents in surrounding streets are now calling for Camden
Council to shoot down Bullet’s bid to stay open until 3am Thursdays
to Saturdays, and 1am every other night.
They are also calling for a freeze on plans to double the bar’s
capacity from 100 drinkers to 200.
A file of objections will be considered by councillors before they
make a final decision on whether or not to grant the later hours
at a meeting scheduled for tonight (Thursday).
Objectors fear they will be kept awake by drunken revellers spilling
out of the bar and that their front gardens will be used as makeshift
toilets.
Judith Cundall, who lives in nearby Kelly Street, said in her letter
of objection that her front garden, as the first in the street at
the Kentish Town Road end, was used as a public convenience.
Brenda Gardner, of Castle Road Residents Association, added that
members appreciated that Bullet’s new manager had redecorated
and improved the bar in the hope of attracting a cosmopolitan mix
of customers.
She said: “However, we are strongly against extending the licensing
hours of the premises and increasing the capacity to 200 people…
“It is important to remember that Bullet is in a highly residential
area and is surrounded by a large number of residential houses and
flats.”
Penny Gardiner, of Kelly Street, said that her street, because of
its proximity to the bar, seemed to be “a particularly popular
venue in which to have an argument, empty bladders or worse, or
throw-up”.
She added: “It doesn’t take a handful of people to wake
the neighbourhood if they make a lot of noise. But 200?
“People leaving a club in the middle of the night will never
do so quietly, least of all if they’ve been drinking.”
Bar boss Adam Marshall opened Bullet late last year in the venue
formerly known as The Verge.
Once a cult rock nightclub renowned for its grungy condition, the
bar has been radically transformed into a swish cocktail lounge.
In his application, Mr Marshall, who until July last year ran the
Rose and Crown in Highgate, said: “The security firm being
used by the bar on Thursday to Sunday evenings has comprehensive
experience of managing bars in the West End and Camden, and will
work closely with the police.
“CCTV is recorded 24 hours a day with three cameras on the
exterior and three on the interior.”
Mr Marshall and the objectors are due to outline their arguments
in front of councillors at tonight’s (Thursday’s) meeting
at the Town Hall.
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