Bid to introduce London?s blanket restriction on nightclub booze sales

[edhistory]

This is Jack Hopkins of Lambeth Council?

John K

[Otta]

So rather than screwing businesses, why don't they put some police presence on the streets at night.

[Jeremy]

Maybe I'm just making this up, but aren't the fees for a late license supposed to go towards policing, street cleaning, etc? If so, Otta's suggestion makes sense.

[ianr]

edhistory Wrote:

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> This is Jack Hopkins of Lambeth Council?

Yes. It appears to be a Lambeth council matter: http://lambethnews.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/bid-to-introduce-londons-first-blanket-restriction-on-nightclub-booze-sales/

Lambeth Council will be consulting on an Early Morning Alcohol Restriction Order (EMRO) for the corner of Wandsworth Road and North Street, Clapham. It will affect four currently licensed venues and proposes midnight as the terminal serving hour for alcohol seven days a week.

[El Pibe]

Admittedly, the only time I went to the Artesian Well I got so drunk I decided to walk home and slept in someone's doorway for a few hours, whilst my mate fell asleep in the bogs and woke locked in the pub in the wee hours and had to wait til staff turned up to get out.

[Dopamine1979]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> my mate fell asleep in the bogs and woke locked in

> the pub in the wee hours and had to wait til staff

> turned up to get out.

That happened to me in Ministry of Sound once when I was a student.

It certainly gives you a chance to reassess your priorities.

[KidKruger]

Was Artesian Well previously Cafe Des Artiste ?

[Jeremy]

No, they are/were next to each other.

[giggirl]

It would be hard for London to be taken seriously as an international city if we submit to this nanny law. It should be about personal responsibility.

[StraferJack]

A lot of " mays" in that whole OP tho

[uncleglen]

I am surprised anyone can afford to drink so much that they are incapable. We could go back to the days when the pub shuts at 11 and then you go back to someone's house to carry on drinking.