Peri Peri's Chickenland bid to stay open until 3am refused
TAKEAWAY restaurant Peri Peri's Chickenland in Southgate Street, Gloucester, had its bid to stay open until 3am thrown out.
Police feared allowing later hours would lead to a spike in anti-social behaviour, following a 22 per cent rise in crime there in the past year.
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Peri Peri's Chickenland
Yesterday, members of Gloucester City Council Licensing Sub-committee ruled the takeaway could open until 1am on Friday and Saturday, with opening hours for the rest of the week restricted to midnight.
Chief Inspector Richard Birch said policing Gloucester's night-time economy was already stretched, describing takeaways as a "hotbed for disorder".
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"We have reached saturation point with the amount of late-night takeaways," he said.
"There is a significant amount of disorder between the Triangle and the Spa Road lights. There are no public conveniences open late, so urinating in the street is also a particular problem. It is not sustainable to put police resources under this kind of pressure for the night-time economy."
Police said in the past two years there were 1,375 incidents recorded in Southgate Street, of which 258 were complaints about noise or rowdy behaviour. There are four flats above the takeaway and 12 more nearby.
Neighbour Paul Jennings said he has to close his windows in summer because of the smell of smoking chicken.
He said: "People making noise at night is a big issue for us. My eldest daughter works late shifts, I don't want her coming home to find men hanging around or urinating in the street."
Peri Peri manager, Ibrar Ahmed Malik, said: "I asked police if there had been incidents inside takeaways and they couldn't tell me. It is unfair to suggest otherwise."
Comments
by TimMessanger
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 7:01PM
“"Chief Inspector Richard Birch said policing Gloucester's night-time economy was already stretched, describing takeaways as a "hotbed for disorder"."
Yep look at Eastgate Street
"We have reached saturation point with the amount of late-night takeaways," he said.
Again Eastgate Street
"There is a significant amount of disorder between the Triangle and the Spa Road lights."
Mainly caused by the homeless, street drinkers and clubers from Eastgate street on their way home .
There are no public conveniences open late, so urinating in the street is also a particular problem.
Same as the urinal called Eastgate Street.
It is not sustainable to put police resources under this kind of pressure for the night-time economy."
All the police we have available are needed to deal with Eastgate Street.
Police said in the past two years there were 1,375 incidents recorded in Southgate Street, of which 258 were complaints about noise or rowdy behaviour. There are four flats above the takeaway and 12 more nearby. Yep you can walk past them in the summer and smell the "herb" being smoked in the flats!
Neighbour Paul Jennings said he has to close his windows in summer because of the smell of smoking chicken.
The takeaway could install an electrostatic filter that will remove even the smallest of smoke particles - sorted.
Was it last November that the licence of Best Takeaway in Eastgate street was altered to include constantly recording CCTV and a door supervisor after 1am.”
by gloscityguy
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 5:08PM
“Strange how some takeaways on Eastgate St have their opening times advertised until 4am at weekends, and 3pm for Wednesday and Thursday.
I wonder why they have a problem with chicken and not kebabs?”
by Hackingtackle
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 11:40AM
“It's about time that these chicken restaurants were cracked down on.
It's a well established fact that fried chicken is responsible for huge rates of crime in other cities.
Today it might be 'antisocial behaviour' and 'urinating in public', but it's only a matter of time before fried chicken causes genocide and International terrorism in Gloucester. Luckily we can now sleep safely at night. Phew!”