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| BOOZE TEST CASE SHOCK |
A ROW over the opening hours of a Primrose Hill pub has escalated
into a full-scale licensing test case which could change the way
late night drink applications in Camden are resolved in the future.
In the first case of its kind in the borough and one of the first
in the country, a district judge has been asked to review the Town
Hall decision to grant a 1am weekend booze licence to the Princess
of Wales pub in Chalcot Road. The result of the legal challenge,
brought by an unnamed neighbour of the pub and beginning at Highbury
Corner Magistrates Court on Monday, could have mammoth ramifications
for the way residents fight bids by pubs to open later. |
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| PEER CALLS TIME ON ‘NOISY’
PUB |
INFLUENTIAL Islington peer Lord Simon, a former advisor to Prime
Minister Tony Blair, spectacularly clashed with the government this
week over its new liberal drinking laws.
He spoke out after a Canonbury pub was granted an extended licence
under new laws which have been attacked for encouraging a 24-hour
binge-drinking culture.
The application for an extra hour’s drinking time at the award-winning
Canonbury Tavern in Canonbury Grove angered neighbours Lord and
Lady Simon of Highbury, whose Georgian home in St Mary’s Grove
borders the pub’s vast 240-capacity garden. |
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| WARNING ON BOOZE LAWS |
HUNDREDS of pubs, bars and restaurants could be operating illegally
by November unless City Hall changes its licensing policy.
This is the warning from licensing trade as more than 600 establishments
failed to apply for conversion licences under the controversial
new Licensing Act.
The West End Extra has learned that licensing chiefs met with council
lawyers yesterday (Thursday) to discuss amendments to their licensing
policy.
The deadline for conversion licences was August 6 and just over
600, out of 3,600 licensed premises, failed to meet the deadline. |
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