Search this site
-
Recent posts
About
I'm a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth; this blog mainly covers that, sometimes general politics and policy and occasionally anything else that takes my fancy.
Category Archives: Shaftesbury
Newspot, Lavender Hill, licensing application
To continue today’s licensing theme, Newspot, at 8 Lavender Hill has received an application to extend their licensed hours. Their current hours end at 11pm Monday to Saturday and 10.30pm on Sunday. They are applying for an alcohol licence between 8am until 2am Monday to Thursday, 8am until 3am Friday and Saturday and 10am until
read more…
Tagged Lavender Hill, licensing, Newspot
Leave a comment
Best One, Eversleigh Road licence review decision
The licensing sub-committee considered Best One’s licensing application last month. The original application was for a licence until 11pm. However (and perhaps in response to local representations) the applicant reduced the hours requested to 9pm six days a week, and 6pm on Sundays. The application was granted, with a number of conditions to address some
read more…
Tagged Best One, Eversleigh Road, licensing
Leave a comment
Detailed Beaufoy conditions
View Larger Map Perhaps predictably, within hours of posting the outline of the decision on the Beaufoy I got the detailed decision. This has not been posted on the council’s website yet, but will appear in due course (I’m not sure if it will be under the original 28 February meeting or the adjourned 24
read more…
Tagged Beaufoy, Lavender Hill, licensing
1 Comment
Sweet Sensations, Lavender Hill, licensing application
View Larger Map An application has been made by Sweet Sensations, 256 Lavender Hill for an extension to their alcohol licence. Their current licence allows alcohol sales from 8am until 11pm Monday to Saturday and 10am until 10.30pm on Sundays. They are applying for an extension for sales from 7am until midnight on Sunday to
read more…
New conditions on the Beaufoy
View Larger Map The licensing review on the Beaufoy reconvened last week following what can only be described as an abortive first meeting when the police evidence was not as robust as it should have been. I confess that my attempts to find out more about the police’s position in the intervening weeks has done
read more…
Tagged Beaufoy, Lavender Hill, licensing
1 Comment
Battersea Mess licensing review
View Larger Map A licensing review for Battersea Mess, on Lavender Gardens, has been requested by a local resident on the grounds the existing conditions have not upheld the prevention of public nuisance licensing objective. I understand they seek a restriction of hours and additional conditions. As a (semi) regular of the Mess I can’t
read more…
Best One, Eversleigh Road, licensing application
View Larger Map An application has been made by Best One for an alcohol licence at 227-229 Eversleigh Road. Their application appears quite straightforward, sale of alcohol from 6am until 11pm every day of the week. This would extend beyond the shop’s current opening hours (and I don’t know if it is an indication that
read more…
Tagged Eversleigh Road, licensing
1 Comment
Shopping in Clapham St John’s
I have a reputation for being a bit grumpy about people pretending they are in Clapham when they are, in fact, firmly in Battersea. I’m not sure why this has developed, since intensive cognitive behavioural therapy and daily meditation normally keeps it in check. But I know a few issues do fester. One is ‘The
read more…
Tagged Battersea, Sainsbury's, SW11, SW11tch
Leave a comment
Crime in Shaftesbury: winning or losing?
The Shaftesbury Ward Safer Neighbourhood Team meeting takes place tonight at 7pm in the Shaftesbury Club, 128, Lavender Hill. I’m a fan of neighbourhood policing, but one of its weaknesses, I think, is that the public are not particularly empowered to hold the police to account. Part of this is in the weakness of the
read more…
The Beaufoy licensing review
View Larger Map The review of the Beaufoy Bar’s license took place last night. I attended as a local councillor, making a representation on behalf of colleagues and some ward residents (despite the bar’s lawyer arguing I had no right to represent the residents). Licensing panels are run almost like a court hearing, with various
read more…
Tagged Beaufoy Bar, Lavender Hill
1 Comment
