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| BATTLE
OF THE BARS |
HUNDREDS of bars and clubs have inundated the council with last
minute demands to extend their hours under the new Licensing Act.
And residents are battling to prevent a deluge of late hours.
Westminster Council estimate that just over 60 per cent of its licensed
premises have beat the August 6 deadline to submit applications
for
But last senior councillors admitted a “substantial minority”
have applied for the extension of their hours.
Residents associations have submitted hundreds of letters of objection
in a bid to stave off yet later hours in the West End.
Just this week 109 pubs and clubs have applied to vary and extend
their hours including the Gala Barracuda casino in Baker Street,
which wants to stay open until 6am Monday to Saturday, the Marylebone
Tup, in Marylebone High Street, which has applied to sell alcohol
until 2am every day and the Penthouse in Leicester Square which
wants to allow dancing and supply alcohol until 3am, every morning.
Jo Weir, the chairwoman of the Covent Garden Community Association,
said: “Most pubs and bars have applied for extra hours and
we are in the process of putting objections in but it is a very
tight deadline. |
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| Stringfellow
takes on new club |
A FAMOUS celebrity haunt that
was once closed following serious drugs allegations is set to be
reborn as a new Stringfellows strip club.
Peter Stringfellow, who has run his eponymous club in Covent Garden
for more than 20 years, has applied to open Stringfellows Soho in
Wardour Street – in a site that is currently the Trap nightclub.
The Trap was in the centre of a investigation by the Metropolitan
Police’s Clubs and Vice Unit last September which revealed
that drug dealing, involving cocaine and pills, was taking place
inside and outside the club. |
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