The Enfield Council licenses committee spent 45 minutes considering the request of the applicant Denis Gjelaj, who operates Avenue Club 2 in Green Lanes, Bowes Park.
The councilors rejected the consent for more hours after the inspectors increased the conerns on the prevention of crime and disorder, public safety and prevention of public discomfort, all quoted as license objectives.
Avenue Club 2 currently opens at 9 am and closes at 11 pm from Monday to Wednesday, at 1.30 am of the 2.30 am on Fridays and Saturdays.
The new proposition of the closing times was 2.30 to Wednesday, at 3 am on Thursdays and 4 AM, Fridays and Saturdays.
But the duration of the audience, Cllr Suna Hurman, who presided over the meeting on Wednesday (April 9), said the place had already been operating outside its current hours with license.
The Metropolitan Police officer Derek Ewart said the police strongly opposed the proposal hours, since they would cause “a serious and unacceptable risk in the police opinion on the license objectives.”
The place is located in a ‘cumulative impact zone’, which means that the area already has many license facilities. PC EWART said the approval of the application ran the risk of increasing the “impact of noise” and people at “several levels of poisoning” in the streets.
The officer said there were 139 houses nearby, including some directly on the facilities, but the application showed no “awareness” of this.
In addition to the police, the council officers and a local resident also made representations to the committee.
Noel Samaroo, representative of Gjelaj, said that his client did not know what representations would be made at the point of sending the application and “sometimes you cannot please everyone.”
He said: “There is normally time to mitigate representations and that usually works well … but sometimes when you deal with residents it is a much more difficult situation.
“To add conditions, only beer, we have had certain representations, they would be correct. So we have tried to walk this fine line of putting an application to give confidence, but, hand in hand, we do not want to do the operators.”
Asked by Cllr Hurman, he asked why the place had “so many” security guards on Friday and Saturday, these days, the place employs two for three inside: Mr. Samaroo said: “It is not because there is problems, there is no, it has not been the one that has not been, it has not been, five supervisors there.
Hakema Lasmi, the council’s high -level license application officer, said after searching at Google, there was a website or “much information about how people can reserve or see menus.”
Clarifying that customers can call to reserve a table, Samaroo said: “It is a slightly reserved operation, it is full of people who have bone there before, but I do not want it to sound for one. Correct restaurant.”
The Committee rejected permission for the extension of the opening hours.
