A branch of fast-food chain KFC has applied to extend its late licence to allow it to deliver customer orders until 3am at weekends.
The business, at 63-64 Western Road, Brighton, owned by K&Z Newhaven Limited, has applied to extend its late-night refreshment licence which currently allows the business to stay open until midnight daily.
Nine neighbours have objected to the application which will be decided by a licensing panel made up of three councillors at a hearing on Thursday 1 October.
The company said, in its application, that customers would not be allowed in the restaurant after midnight.
But it wanted to deliver until 3am on a Saturday and Sunday morning, stick with a midnight closing time on a Sunday night and deliver until 1am in the morning from Tuesday to Friday.
A late-night licence is required to sell hot food or drink between 11pm and 5am.
The branch of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) said that it had no plans to change the opening time – 9.30am daily.
Neither Sussex Police nor the council licensing team objected to the application by K&Z Newhaven which is owned by Nasir Hussein, 75, Nazmina Hussein, 71, and Shahaz Nanji, 45.
One anonymous objector, whose details were redacted by the council, was concerned about noisy scooters and drivers dropping their cigarette butts.
The unnamed objector said: “The extension of operating hours would cause significant disturbance and disruption to those that live in Western Road and those close and in the vicinity.
“The area already experiences significant noise from delivery / collect services and this would be extended as a result of this application well into the night, disturbing sleep.”
Another anonymous objector, whose details were also redacted, said: “This part of central Brighton has the challenges of anti-social behaviour, drug use, etc.
“Fewer opportunities for commercial activity help keep the incidents of disturbing events down.”
The council licensing panel hearing is due to start at 10am on Thursday 1 October. The meeting is scheduled to be webcast.
Food delivery is causing the collapse of services in fast food outlets, because customers standing at the counter are the lowest priority, when food delivery gets priority.
Burgess Hill McDonald’s is the absolute worst. I’ve been trying to grab food one lunchtime between appointments and after 25 minutes waiting asked for a refund.
Delivery food is fine, but it should come from a kitchen unit on an industrial site, not high street premises. This not only because the service to physical customers suffers, but to fix the e-bike menace on pavements that threaten the safety of pedestrians and stop people visiting town/city centres.
Add to that, Deliveroo, for example, charges 30% of the order to the restaurant and a phantasmagoria of fees to the order. I wonder if someone has done the math to show us whether it’s actually sustainable to do that in the long term?
I wondered why the Brighton one looked so empty all the time. Lots and lots of delivery drivers, empty tables. Thank god for the Ivy. 😉
These food delivery scooters are a menace on the streets and pavements. Why can’t people be bothered to go and collect their own fast food anymore? Or are they no longer healthy enough to leave their houses?
Is it even legal in that area ?? In their T’s & C’s for that outlet in that area there are guidelines for how trade premises operate, just my thoughts of course but a lot of these trade add oñs were never planned for in the original prospect, noisy bikes and trade added on eternally everywhere.