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18 May 2005
Booze And Gamble Until Dawn At
Stanley Casino
Gamblers
at Wirral's only casino will be allowed to booze and gamble
until dawn if the borough's first application for extended
drinking hours gets the thumbs-up.
The application from
Stanley Casino is to extend weekday-drinking hours from the
current 2am closing time to the much later 6am.
The earliest closing time
all week will be 4am in the early hours of
Sundays.
It is the first
through-the-night request received by the borough and is
expected to open the floodgates for a raft of similar
applications from licensed premises across
Wirral.
The JD Wetherspoon chain -
which operates five popular bars in Wallasey, Moreton,
Birkenhead, Hoylake and West Kirby - has already confirmed
it will apply to start serving booze from 9am, as
exclu-sively revealed in the Globe last month.
Stanley Casinos Limited,
which operates the borough's only casino on Oxton Road in
Birkenhead, lodged its controversial application on May
3.
Details of the application
have now been forwarded to the police, environmental health,
trading standards, child protection and the fire and
planning committee.
As with anyone else who
wishes to lodge a protest against it, they only have until
June 2 to do so.
The proposal, along with
any objections received, is then expected to go before the
licensing committee a couple of weeks later.
A final decision will more
than likely have to be runner-stamped by a full council
meeting a short time after that.
Councillor Andrew Hodson,
chairman of the council's licesing committee, said: "As I've
said before, there is a new law in force now and we have to
judge each application we receive within the framework of
that law.
"What we as a council have
to do is make sure that every possible interested party is
infor-med in advance so that they have enough time to
prepare any representations they wish to make.
"Any objections or
comments received by the required date will of course be
considered in full by the committee."
A spokesman for Alcohol
Concern said: "We have consistently objected to the idea of
extended drinking hours as we believe there are already far
too many people with alcohol problems in this
country.
"The only argument in
favour of it as far as we can see is for people who work
night shifts and may want a drink on their way
home.
"However, they are
comp-aratively rare cases which we don't think merit a
change in the law. The bottom line is that as a society
we're encouraging people to drink more, not less, and that
can only lead to more problems."
A Gamblers Anonymous
spokes-man told the Globe: "Our primary concern is to get
people off gambling. Whether people see extended drinking
hours as helpful or otherwise to our cause is a matter for
them."
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