To: licensing@lambeth.gov.uk
Date: Tuesday, 23 November, 2010, 23:53
Off Licence Application, ABY Convenience Stores, 297 Kennington Rd, SE11 4QR
Objection on behalf of the Kennington Association as to proposed permitted hours
Who we are
1 The Kennington Association is a voluntary membership association of around 430 members drawn from the wider Kennington area, whose aim is to promote and maintain Kennington as a good place to live and work. The Kennington Association Planning Forum (KAPF) is a group of Association members with interest in and experience of planning, development and licensing issues, which develops planning policies and makes planning and licensing representations on behalf of the wider Association.
Nature of Objection
2 The application asks for permitted hours extending to 1 am on Sunday to Wednesday and 2 am on Thursday to Saturday. We have no objection in principle to off licence sales from these premises. There are already two off licences in the vicinity, one with a usual closing time of 9 pm, with 10 pm on Friday and Saturday, and one a small convenience retail outlet with later times, coexisting with several public houses with late opening times to 1 am at weekends. So far, these arrangements have not given rise to any significant nuisance to the surrounding residential areas.
3 But we consider that there is a risk of disorder and nuisance if off sales are permitted from this outlet just as public houses are closing, as there is already a certain lingering from departing customers patronizing the nearby kebab shop, which has itself extended its hours to cater to this trade, and contributes to a continued street presence after 1 am. To allow off sales after 1 am would in our view not be desirable in these circumstances and residential surroundings.
D J Boardman
Chair
Kennington Association Planning Forum
Flat 1
39 Chester Way
Kennington
London SE11 4UR
23 November 2010
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