A new restaurant and wine bar venture has been granted an alcohol licence after going before councillors for a hearing.
Two neighbours objected to Hall and Wise Limited’s plans for a restaurant and wine bar called the Wineyard, at 120 St George’s Road, Brighton.
Hall and Wise have yet to sign a lease on the site which has operated as a restaurant for more than 20 years but is currently empty.
The operating hours would be from 10am to 11pm daily.
The restaurant and bar area has space for about 150 people across two floors, with about 50 more in the back garden.
At a Brighton and Hove City Council licensing panel hearing on Wednesday (17 December), Eleanor De Giberne Sieveking raised concerns about noise because her bedroom backs on to the garden.
She told the panel of three councillors – Samer Bagaeen, Ivan Lyons and Ollie Sykes – that it was the only place in the flat where she and her partner Leonardo were not affected by noise from other venues in the area. He also objected to the licence application.
Company director Tim Hall, 54, said that outside noise could be subjective, saying: “One relies on a quality manager so the general manager in the premises we’re looking to hire at the moment is extremely experienced. One of his roles will be to manage noise.”
The panel noted neighbours’ concerns and the measures proposed to address noise by the business owners.
The council decision letter said: “The applicants were experienced operators and the previous premises at this address had been a restaurant-style operation.
“The panel notes the applicants’ assurance that their experienced and well-trained staff will monitor noise and intoxication levels in the garden on a regular basis.”
Before the hearing, the directors agreed draft conditions with Sussex Police such as no standing and drinking inside the venue, with customers served by waiting staff.
During busy periods, customers would be able to order from the bar and return to their tables.
Customers would be allowed to stand and drink in the garden but tables and chairs would be provided to encourage people to sit.
Substantial food must be available at all times, with menus clearly displayed and including hot food.
Off-sales would be limited to wine produced by independent vintners and sold in sealed containers.
Brighton licensing board don’t care about the noise & stress suffered by residents.
They grant licenses left, right & centre to businesses.
Every newsagent sells booze to the alcoholics living on the streets.
Drunkenness causes so many problems throughout the city yet still they allow/encourage drinking.
It was a Gay Bar before and a restaurant before that with a drinks licence. The Kemp pub is just across the road from this establishment and is always noisy at the weekends and especially in the summer when their bifolding doors are open. Who cares, it’s only til 11pm. Go and live in the country if you want quiet!
What people generally want more of, is a functional economy, and that is what you want too if you plan on continuing to draw an unmeans-tested state pension, free NHS access etc, all the big ticket items that cost the most in each budget.
Don’t forget, if the money isn’t there because there are not enough jobs to go around, or life is so unaffordable that no one has any money to spend, then it will be the big ticket items in each budget that become the easiest to slash.
So you might, for example, prefer to have nearby industry and commerce, instead of living in abject poverty scrounging from a food bank because your pension no longer covers the rapidly increasing cost of food and energy.
For most people it’s a no brainer, but for a particular cohort of a particular age, who exited the workforce some years ago, they don’t appear to factor economic literacy into their expectations of how much of the burden they’re putting on the economy, and they certainly don’t understand that the state pension could be wound down at any time where there are assets such as mortgage-free properties at play.
It genuinely appears that they literally can’t think beyond themselves, they think the economy is a stable cash cow where they are always going to be prioritised (due in part to decades of pandering from the Tories who literally gave them cash bonus payments at Christmas to bribe them for their vote). They really don’t seem to understand at all that their sunset years are not in fact secured, and a life of abject poverty seems so far removed that they don’t even seem to understand that for most working people, it’s already here.
Pandering constantly to the NIMBY boomerati has gutted this country, destroyed economic expansion, stolen home ownership from sobriquet generations and instead saddling them with mortgage-sized student loans, and it remains to be seen if complete economic collapse can even be averted anymore.
We either expand economically, continue to contract and curtail adult social care with pension welfare, or we won’t have a country left.
Anyone currently planning on giving birth soon in this country, in this rapidly declining state, is a child abuser, or owns a lot of assets.
“Capitalism and growth allowed to function despite complaints from those in receipt of unmeans-tested triple locked state pensions who don’t understand why economic growth is required in order to meet the demands of a huge glut of births in the 1940s, and no glut of workers to pay for their lifestyle demands”