Council rejects latest late night bar plan (From Stourbridge News)

Council rejects latest late night bar plan

8:00am Wednesday 25th November 2009

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COUNCIL licensing chiefs have called last orders on plans for another late night boozer in Stourbridge town centre.

An application had been submitted for The Old Bank Buildings on the corner of High Street and Coventry Street seeking permission to serve alcohol until 1.30am and play music until 2am - Monday to Saturday.

But - much to the relief of politicians, police and more than 40 residents who signed a petition against the application - Dudley Council's licensing sub-committee yesterday (Tuesday November 24) decided to restrict licensing hours to midnight Monday to Saturday and to 11.30pm on Sunday.

Stourbridge MP Lynda Waltho said: "I'm pleased to see that, for a change, Dudley Council has listened to local people with regard to the licensing decision on the Bank Buildings Development."

Prospective parliamentary candidate for Stourbridge, Margot James, added: "We're all delighted the council decided to confine the licensed hours to an end time of midnight during the week and on a Saturday."

Objectors - many of them residents in Lower High Street and Coventry Street - feared another late night bar would increase anti-social behaviour and violent crime in the town centre on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

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