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| PEER
CALLS TIME ON ‘NOISY’ PUB |
Ex-Blair advisor fails in bid to
halt late-night drinks
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.
Lord Simon said in a letter to Islington Council: “The management
and company have not controlled the anti-social and sometimes dangerous
and abusive behaviour of patrons for some considerable time.
“The garden hours should be restricted, not extended, due to
noise, smells and drunken behaviour after 11.30pm”. The life
peer was a Cabinet Office advisor on government modernisation –
a “blue-skies” thinker – in 1999, and is also a former
Treasury minister and European Trade Minister and an ex-director
of the Bank of England. Lady Simon and other residents attended
the licensing committee which was hearing the pub’s application
at the Town Hall on Tuesday. |
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