The Spar convenience store on Chelsea Road in Bath has applied to increase the hours it can sell alcohol.
The Spar convenience store on Chelsea Road | Photo © Bath Echo
Bath & North East Somerset Council has received an application from Wessex Retail Ltd to vary the premises licence for the store, which recently underwent a refurbishment.
The application is to extend the hours for the sale of alcohol (for consumption off the premises) and opening times to 6am to 11pm every day.
The current hours are 8am to 11pm Monday to Saturday, and from 8am to 10.30pm on Sundays.
The bid also includes the removal of restrictions on the Christmas Day and Good Friday sale of alcohol and opening hours in line with the above proposed hours.
The council’s licensing sub-committee will decide the application at its meeting on Thursday, 21st March.
A resident who lives close to the store has lodged an objection.
Thomas Friend said: “I am a resident on Park Road, adjacent to Chelsea Road, and object the planned extended licensing hours for the Spar store.
“It is a quiet, family-friendly area and I believe the extended licensing hours to sell alcohol will attract anti-social behaviour in the area and noise at anti-social hours, disturbing what is currently a quiet family environment.
“I am worried it will set a precedent in a road where the majority of the shops are shut in the evening.
“It will change the nature of the area if shops selling alcohol are open at later hours. There may be noise disturbances at anti-social hours with the delivery of stock to the store.
“I and other households on Park Road strongly object to this application.”
