'Man Shed - a safe place for men to come and talk opens in Willesden on May 15th

 

 

With issues around 'toxic masculinity' very much in the news and knowing that men often find it hard to talk about problems that they are experiencing, I was pleased to see that Willesden hair stylist, Michael Roberts, had taken a positive initiative in setting up a Men's Space.

Michel told Wembley Matters:

I have set up this non profit man shed in my salon in Willesden  for men to come and talk and have a safe place.

 

Why did I think of this?

 

I felt that men needed  a place like this and being from Brent and working in Brent, I know there are so many people with mental health and men going through  life issues  who  don't have a voice or a place to release.

 

Willesden Green Station book swap to return

 

I am sharing this news received via Facebook. After a campaign led by local residents LINK the surface level station book swaps will return.

Message from TfL:

Community book swap libraries will start to return to surface level London Underground stations in May after London Fire Brigade (LFB) and Transport for London (TfL) worked in partnership to agree the use of a suitable fire-proof storage solution.

New cabinets will be introduced at a number of stations, starting with High Barnet and enabling the valuable community assets of book swap libraries to be re-established in those locations.

The cabinets, from a third-party supplier, are both compliant with fire safety regulations and meet the unique requirements for the London Underground in terms of fire safety, accessibility, and network security.

 

Locations where book swap libraries will be re-introduced from May are:

Acton Town
Cockfosters
Ealing Common
East Finchley
Hammersmith
High Barnet
Kew Gardens
Kilburn
Morden
Northfields
Oakwood
Ravenscourt Park
Stamford Brook
Totteridge & Whetstone
Willesden Green

TfL and LFB are continuing working together on the issue of book swap libraries at sub-surface London Underground stations, which are subject to more stringent regulations.

 

At these locations, finding a solution that is compliant with fire safety regulations is currently not possible.

However, we will be exploring with the Government whether the regulations could be reviewed, which could potentially allow for the return of these community assets with appropriate risk assessment and mitigations in the future.

 

I appreciate that there has been some uncertainty related to book swaps, but I do hope this good news addresses any questions in relation to the recent safety issues with the book swaps.

 

Should Brent data on Afro-Caribbean Boys' attainment gap be made public?

50 years ago I was involved in a grassroots group called the Westminster Group for  Multiracial Education. The group arose from community concerns about education in North Paddington and involved parents, teachers, school students, social workers, workers from the local Commission for Racial Equality and a young lawyer from the nearby Law Centre who went on to become the MP for Brent East.

Concerns included racism in schools, racist remarks by teachers, low expectations of Black pupils and discrimination in their access to examination streams,  the lack of books and other resources relevant to Black people and their history, and the disproportionate number of Black pupils labelled ESN* (Educationally Sub-normal in the language of the times.) More widely the impact of the SUS law (Stop and Search on Suspicion) and immigration laws on young people was a big issue locally.

In nearby Brent Council adopted a Policy Statement on Multicultural Education on October 21st 1981. the statement recognised and welcomed the community as multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual and stated:

The Council is committed to a fundamental and significant change to a multi-cultural education based on a concept of cultural pluralism. The recongition that all people and cultures are inherently equal must be a constant from which all educational practices will be developed. 

The education system must be one which affords equality of opportunity to all children. we shall develop a plan and strategy to make the means of achievement consistent with the aims.

Reflecting community concerns Brent Council asked the Black educationalist Jocelyn Barrow to head an inquiry into the pattern of secondary school examination results that showed schools in the south of the borough 'performing markedly less well than the north'.  They were to:

1. Assess the standards achieved in secondary schools

2. Assess parental concerns

3. Assess whether these concerns were justified

4. To advise on remedial action

There was opposition from some teachers to the inquiry and schools were often reluctant to release data. The inquiry was accused of usurping the role of the school inspectorate. 

The report was published as 'Two Kingdoms: Standards and Concerns, Parents and Schools. An Independent Investigation into Secondary Schools in Brent 1981-1984'

Following the report Brent Council set up the Development Programme for Education, Attainment and Racial Equality (DPEARE) that sent advisory techers into schools to address achievement issues. A Daily Mail article denounced the teachers as 'Race spies' causing considerable conflict.  Brent Community Relations Council reacted with a statement:

The allegation that DPEARE teachers are merely 'race spies' is beneath contempt. They are quality and experienced professionals seeking to bring about a process of educational change that will help to raise the attainment of all children. 

The HMI reporting in Spring 1988 concluded:

The programme is developing satisfactorily and most work is of sound quality and adddresses the needs of Ethnic Minority pupils within the normal curriculum.

The importance of statistics (data) was underlined by the Home Office DPEARE Monitoring Panel:

 A Queen's Park Community School Staff Newsletter reports a positive visit by the Monitoring team.

 

In 2005 the issues were revisited in a collection of essays in 'Tell it like it is: How our schools fail black children' was published with a launch discussion at Harlesden Library.

An Institute of Race Relations (IRR) review includes the following:

According to Brian Richardson, the editor of Tell it Like it is, ‘Black kids may not be labelled as “educationally subnormal” these days, but they are disproportionately excluded from school, dumped in pupil referral units and sent into the world with fewer qualifications than their peers.’

In 2004, Black boys were three times as likely to be excluded from school as White boys and the percentage of Black Caribbean pupils getting five or more grades A* to C at GCSE and equivalent was 36 per cent compared to 52.3 per cent of White children.

And, in 2005, the cocktail of excuses served up to wash down such unpalatable facts is still of the 1970s flavour. Both major parties and the mainstream media still focus on the supposed shortcomings within the Black community: the lack of ‘academic focus’; the supposed dearth of strong and positive role models created by living in fragmented families and now the influence of ‘ghetto fabulous’ culture. Despite the evidence accumulated over the last three decades which highlights the institutional racism at the heart of ‘underachievement’, there are still plenty of schemes addressing cultural confusion, negative self-esteem, alienation and bad behaviour among Caribbean youth and their parents.

 

Fast forward to yesterday evening's Scrutiny Committee (Video) where I made the following presentation:

The problem of under-achievement, particularly of boys of Black Caribbean heritage has persisted. In 2018 the Community and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee expressed concern at the gap between Black Caribbean boys and other groups.

The 2018 standards report had shown that at the end of Key Stage 2 the attainment of boys of Black Caribbean heritage had increased by four percentage points but the gap with the national average for all pupils had widened to 23 points below the national average.

A Specialist Centre for Black Caribbean Boys’Achievement  headed by Chalkhill Primary School was set up with  Black Caribbean Boys Achievement champions in each school.

Detailed analysis of ethnic achievement data was provided to the Schools Forum and some schools’ reluctance to provide details on Black Caribbean Boys was noted. That data is still on the Council website LINK but hasn’t been updated.

Now we come to this evening’s report:

3.12.6 notes:

 The previous focus to improve the attainment of Boys of Black Caribbean Heritage continues to be monitored. However, this data is not in the public domain and is therefore provided as a confidential attachment.

I ask Why not in the public domain?

3.12.8  notes:

The Brent Schools Race Equality Programme was launched on December 6th, 2024. It is a free offer available to all Brent schools. Only 29 out of 63 primary schools have taken it up)

One of its aims is to:

 To significantly increase the attainment of underperforming ethnic groups

7.4 notes that disappointing outcomes for Black Caribbean Boys persist and says:. Brent  continue to implement plans to mitigate these outcomes the data indicates that there it more collaborative work required to improve outcomes and ensure this cohort does not continue to be left behind.

So Brent Council is stating that the data shows that there is a problem but the public, the community concerned, parents and others interested people are not allowed to see the data and assess the extent of the problem and success of the initiatives. This is not accountability and transparency and could give rise to the lack of trust in the system found by Jocelyn Barrow back in the 1980s.  There is of course a need to assess value for money.

 

I ask that the Committee recommend that the data referred to in 3.12.6 be made public.

 

A further concern is that not all Brent school age children are in school and thus not included in the data.  So there is missing context.

I ask that the Committee make request for ethnic information on the following  issues.

Absence Rates

Exclusions

Number of pupils being home-schooled

The extent (if any) of off-rolling **

Impact of Covid

The number of NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) in the borough

 

Responding, Shirley Parks,  Director of Education Partnerships and Strategy said;

With regards to Martin's point about the data being publicly available.  The DfE does not publish the data to this level of granularity so we have access to that to use internally, but we can't publish the national comparators. We would obviously also want to talk to schools [to see] if they are happy for us to publish our data alone. That would not make so much sense unless we could publish national comparators, which is why we are treating it as confidential data.

The fundamental trend which is what Martin actually covered was that we've known for years this cohort of children has not performed as well as we would want them to, which is why we've had a number of initiatives including the previous project that included champions in each school and also the current work that we are doing with the Race Equality programme. We've done three different initiatives to support this cohort of children....This year we are taking that  one step further and we are funding an anti-racist programme working with the Leeds Becket University around an anti-racist kite mark award for schools to again make sure were are doing all we possibly can. 

Ms Parks said the trend had gone up and down with different age cohorts but 'we're still not achieving what we want to achieve.' She pointed out that the LA was not doing as well as they would hope but 'we are making achievements as children go through the system.'

Cllr Kathleen Fraser (Chalkhill ward) said:

I'm listening to everybody thinking, nothing has really changed siince I was young and particularly when I was on the Council 1986-90 when we introduced anti-racist strategies and all sorts. I  myself was the product of one intervention with regards to setting up courses for black people to get into higher education. It was successful but a pity that we had to do it...

I follow what Cllr Clinton was saying: with everything you say is happening, it just seems nothing is improving as regards to Afro-Caribbean young people... I'm not saying that there isn't some good stuff going on but we sat here last year and we didn't have certain figures. This year we've got them and we are glad, but how does SEND and Pupil Premium factor in? We talk about disadvantage, the pandemic, we can go on and on, but still we're failing certain children. Certain children are failing because we haven't grasped what exactly is going on.

Cllr Fraser in a further intervention at the end of the agenda item said: 

We need to do more of a deep dive into this so we are not sitting in this situation next year with regard to standards. With the gap widening rather than reducing with regard to the Attainment of young people from Black Adrican Caribbean and Somali communities. I think with the resources that are being pumped in, we owe it to our residents to take a deep dive into this. Perhaps we can set up a Task Group to look at it.

The Committee did not adopt either of my requests. 

 * ‘How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System’ was first published in 1971. Written by Bernard Coard, a Grenadian, who worked in southeast and east London as teacher and youth worker during the 1960s, the book aimed to expose the endemic levels of racism in Britain’s education system and to rally communities to resist.

 ** Off-rolling is the practice of removing a pupil from the school roll without using a permanent exclusion, when the removal is primarily in the best interests of the school, rather than the the best interests of the pupil. This includes pressuring a parent to remove their child from the school roll (Ofsted):

 

 

Opposition builds to Willesden Green Adult Gaming Centre

Oppositon is building to the new application to convert the Lloyd's Bank buidling at 1 Walm Lane, Willesden Green into an Adult Gaming Centre. See Wembley Matters story HERE.

Cllr Saqlain Choudry took to Next Door to urge local residents to object:

Willesden Green does not need another gambling establishment or betting premise. I strongly object to the proposed adult gaming centre (formerly Lloyds bank). Our community deserves investment in spaces that promote positive activities for all ages — not venues that could encourage addiction. Please make your voices heard and comment by emailing the planning department at Brent Council or commenting on the planning application portal. LINK

The letter asks the council Planning Department to reject the application rather than councillor members of the Planning Committee,

 

Another ward councillor writes;

 I strongly object to this proposal.

There would be five gambling premises in a short stretch of road - 2 Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, the new site, and the current adult gaming centre.

This is too much and the combined effect is hollowing out our High Street.

As a local Councillor I am profoundly concerned by this.

I am even more concerned that this application turns a bingo hall into an adult gaming centre. The lack of change to he floor plan shows that the initial application was made on a morally fraudulent basis, and insult to the integrity of the committee and its members.

Adult gaming centres replace social gambling with highly individualised and algorithmically driven forms of gambling, which seek to spur addiction and take advantage of vulnerable clients. It allows higher stakes than bingo, and because of the non-social nature increases the risk of localised antisocial behaviour, directly outside the site of two recent ASB related stabbings.

This application should not be looked upon kindly and should not be allowed to proceed. The committee should do everything in its legal powers to prevent its progress.

Many thanks to those who will consider this objection. I would encourage them to also take into account the volume of feeling against this from local residents.

 

In all so far there are  37 objections (one is wrongly classified as 'Supports'). This objection may strike a chord with many residents:

 I am writing as a local resident to strongly object to the proposed conversion of the former bank premises in Willesden Green into a casino or bingo hall. As a young woman living nearby, I am deeply concerned about the implications this type of venue will have on the safety, wellbeing, and character of our community.

Over the past few months, I have already noticed a troubling rise in antisocial behaviour in the area. There has been an observable increase in public drunkenness, drug use, and drug dealing in and around Willesden Green, including on my own street. This has made me-and many others-feel significantly less safe walking alone, particularly at night. I have experienced and witnessed incidents of sexual harassment in broad daylight, and these occurrences are becoming more frequent. The addition of a gambling venue with late-night operating hours will only exacerbate these issues.

Casinos and similar gambling establishments are well-documented in their association with increased rates of crime and antisocial behaviour. Numerous studies and case histories from other parts of the UK indicate that areas surrounding such venues often see spikes in petty crime, drug-related offences, loitering, and harassment. This type of environment poses a very real threat to residents, especially women and young people. I already avoid walking alone past certain areas in the evening-bringing in a venue that typically attracts intoxicated and vulnerable individuals late into the night will only make this worse.

Beyond safety, the proposed development raises major concerns about the character and future of Willesden Green. Our area is home to a vibrant and diverse community of families, small business owners, elderly residents, and working professionals. What Willesden Green needs are services and spaces that support this community: affordable housing, youth services, libraries, childcare, green spaces, and accessible cultural or educational venues. A gambling outlet offers none of this. Instead, it threatens to erode the fabric of our high street, attracting predatory business models and potentially displacing more beneficial local services.

Moreover, venues like casinos and bingo halls often prey on the most economically vulnerable in society. In a borough like Brent, where many residents are already living with financial precarity, allowing a gambling outlet to operate in the heart of Willesden Green sends entirely the wrong message. Rather than investing in social support and community enrichment, it risks fuelling addiction, debt, and mental health problems-all of which ultimately place further pressure on local services, healthcare, and policing.

This proposal also runs counter to the council's stated commitments to equality, public health, and inclusive neighbourhood development. If Brent is serious about building safe, resilient, and inclusive communities, this application should be firmly rejected.

Finally, there is the issue of planning precedent. There is already a similar establishment a few doors away from the proposed new development, as well as numerous similar gambling businesses in Cricklewood. The presence of yet another gambling venue in such a small geographical area may dissuade other, more community-oriented businesses from investing in the area. It could also have a negative impact on nearby property values and the perception of Willesden Green as a welcoming and safe neighbourhood.

In summary, I strongly urge you to reject this application on the following grounds:

- **Increased crime and antisocial behaviour** associated with gambling venues;

- **Public safety concerns**, particularly for women and vulnerable residents;

- **Recent local rise in harassment, drug use, and intoxication** that such a venue will likely worsen;

- **Negative impact on the area's social and economic fabric**, including risks to mental health, wellbeing, and community cohesion;

- **Contradiction of Brent Council's wider social and urban development goals**.

Please act to protect the wellbeing of residents and preserve the integrity of our neighbourhood by rejecting this proposal.

 

Note that if you submit  a comment by email only your address and whether you Object or Support appears on the Planning Portal. If you submit via the portal HERE your full comment appears so enabling other residents to read it.

 

 

How many affordable homes did Brent deliver in 2024/25? The Council's response. Judge for yourself who was right.

  

From Philip Grant's original post. Read it HERE

 

Guest post by Philip Grant in a personal capacity

As I had written a guest post critical of the Brent Council claim to have delivered 530 affordable homes in 2024/25, when the number delivered by the Council itself was only 26, I felt it only fair to send a copy of the article to Brent's Chief Executive, Kim Wright, and offer her a right of reply. She has taken up that offer, and the full and unedited text of her reply is set out below. 

Readers can judge for themselves which version of the facts, and their interpretation, they choose to accept, those in my original article, or the Council's:-

Dear Mr Grant

 

I hope you are well and had a good Easter. Thank you for giving me the right of reply here.

The figures in the council tax leaflet were correct at the time of printing, based on projected housing completions for the last and current financial year. 

 

At the time of publishing the council tax booklet we were on track to oversee the delivery of 530 affordable homes in 2024-25. Construction projects are rarely straightforward and some of these homes will now be completed slightly later. Due to construction delays, 434 new affordable homes ended up being delivered and the remaining 96 are all due to be completed shortly. While the leaflet was due to be delivered at the end of the financial year, the lead-in times for printing and distribution meant that the artwork was finalised and sent to print on 20 February so the team had to rely on projections.

 

It is true that the council directly delivered 26 affordable homes (the figure you quote from the FOI response) in 2024-25. However, the infographic in the council tax leaflet was an attempt to give a very high-level summary of the breadth and depth of what the council has delivered in the past financial year on just two pages, and to describe these services and outcomes in ways that are accessible to everyone. In the process, ‘oversee the delivery of’ was simplified to ‘delivered’. I accept that this is an oversimplification where the language could have been clearer and we will bear this in mind, being more careful in the future. Making communications more accessible sometimes means using less precise, less technical language and this simplification was certainly not an attempt to mislead but was about better accessibility.

 

The article you have shared states that, since the council did not directly deliver many of these homes, they should not have been included in a summary of how residents’ council tax was spent – in fact, officers are actively involved in the delivery of these homes in all sorts of ways, from planning officers and others who negotiate with applicants to increase the percentage of affordable homes that form part of regeneration schemes across the borough, to housing colleagues who work with registered providers and residents on our housing waiting list, so council tax was used to get these homes delivered in the form of officer time.

 

All of these homes meet the definition of affordable housing under the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and Greater London Authority (GLA) guidelines. 

 

Regarding the 1,000 new council homes scheduled for completion this year, delays mean the projection has been adjusted to 899, with the remaining homes to follow. We're delighted our development in Church End with 99 new council homes, is on track to be completed soon. In a housing crisis, councils need to use all methods at their disposal to increase the supply of homes - buying homes from developers is standard practice and local people then benefit from genuinely affordable rents. Whether built by a registered provider, directly by the council or acquired through planning agreements, these homes form part of our commitment to increasing affordable housing.

 

Brent has one of the best records in London for housebuilding, we were one of only three London boroughs to exceed our housing delivery target last year and approved a total of 3,266 new homes, making us the second highest borough for housing approvals overall.

 

In relation to the ‘Your Brent’ magazine and the Council Tax leaflets, we ensure that the content complies with the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity, and this is,  in fact, included within Brent’s constitution.

 

The principles contained within the Code specifically refer to the need for such publications to be lawful, cost effective, objective, even-handed, appropriate, have regard to equality and diversity and ensuring that publications are issued with care during periods of heightened sensitivity.

 

The content contained within the magazine and the Council Tax leaflet is factual. Officers obtain quotes from members acting as the official council spokesperson for the topics covered. The council does not routinely state what political party members represent (unless reporting on election results e.g. page 7 of the spring Your Brent Magazine reports on the Alperton by-election result) and care is taken to ensure that the issues covered are topics that are important to the people in the Borough.

 

Best wishes to you

Kim

Kim Wright (she/her)

Chief Executive

London Borough of Brent

Applicant who was granted permission for Bingo Hall at Lloyds Bank site in Willesden Green comes back with an application to make it an Adult Gaming Centre

Brent Planning Committee granted permission for a Bingo Hall at 1 Walm Lane, Willesden Green, previously Lloyds Bank, earlier this year. Some commentators suggested that the innocent title of 'Bingo Hall' hid an intention to make it an adult gaming centre.

 

They were right. Building on that success Barry Cunningham, of Star Commercial Ltd, has submitted an application for an Adult Gaming Centre (AGC) on that site:

The Proposal:

To use the ground floor as an AGC with ancillary facilities in the basement. To retain the street elevation as existing, forming a window display area in place of the ATMs and to install signage as permitted by Class 5 of the Advertisement Regulations. To make internal alterations not being development as defined by S 55 of the principle Act.

 

The proposed opening hours are 8am to 12.30am Monday to Friday,  Saturday 9am-1am and Sunday 9.30am-12.30am.

 

Building work would begin in September this year with comppletion in ugust 2026.

 

There is little public  information available about Star Commercial Ltd. 

 

The ground floor plans for the current AGC and previous Bingo Hall (below) are like one of those 'Spot the Difference' competitions they used to have in children's comics. It makes you wonder about the original intention.

 

 Proposed layout of the Adult Gaming Centre

 Proposed layout of the Bingo Hall

 

Comments on the Application, in support or opposed, can be made on the Brent Planning Portal HERE.

VE Day 80th anniversary, and other Brent history events for May

 Guest post by local historian Philip Grant

 

Title slide for VE Day anniversary talk at Kingsbury Library on 6 May.

 

The Spring 2025 “Your Brent” magazine promised ‘exciting events across Brent libraries commemorating the 80^th anniversary of VE Day’, and frontline staff at our Council-run libraries have been under pressure to deliver on that promise! As a result, I was asked (and agreed) to prepare an illustrated VE Day talk, which I will be presenting at a Kingsbury Library coffee morning event on Tuesday 6 May, from 11am to 12noon. If you would like to come, you can find out more and reserve your place using this “link”.

 

As the request was made at fairly short notice, I had to use some of my existing Second World War material in putting the powerpoint slide show together, including an article I wrote for the 75^th anniversary, as part of the 2020 weekly “local history in lockdown” series for Wembley Matters and Brent Archives. My talk will cover not only the celebrations in May 1945, but also the six years before that in Wembley and Willesden, and the slides may also be shown in other Brent libraries on Thursday 8 May. As my introductory slide makes clear, it is a talk that celebrates the end of war, not war itself.

 

 

 

The only other special event for the VE Day anniversary in Brent libraries that I am aware of is a lunchtime concert at Willesden Green Library on Thursday 8 May, from 12noon to 1pm. This free 1940s musical hour will be given by the Bluebelle Trio. For more details, and to reserve your place, “click” here.

 

The Bluebelle Trio (Image from the Brent Libraries, Arts and Heritage Eventbrite page)

2025 is also the centenary of the second year of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park. Brent Civic Centre is on the site of part of that exhibition’s Palace of Industry, so it is appropriate that Wembley Library will be the venue for my talk on “A Day Out at Wembley Park in 1924”, on Tuesday 20 May, from 6.30 to 7.30pm.

 

Title slide for my talk at Wembley Library on 20 May.

 

This is almost the same presentation that I gave at a Kingsbury Library coffee morning in July last year, but by putting it on in the early evening, and in Wembley Park, I hope it will make it more accessible for people who are working during the day. If you would like to attend this guided tour, in pictures, around the 1924 exhibition you can reserve your free place here.

 

If you are interested in the British Empire Exhibition, and particularly in the part it played in 1920s British design, then Wembley History Society’s meeting on Friday 16 May may appeal to you. Dr Kathryn Ferry will be presenting an illustrated talk on “Wembley 1924 – The First Concrete City”. The meeting takes place from 7.30 to 9pm at St Andrew’s Church Hall, Church Lane, Kingsbury, and visitors are welcome. You can see more details on the poster below. [I have been watching some of the “Villages by the Sea” programmes on iPlayer recently, and Kathryn Ferry appears as a guest expert on seaside history in several of them, so I know that she is an excellent speaker!]

 

 

There are other Brent Libraries events, for both adults and children, which you can check out on the Libraries, Culture and Heritage Eventbrite page at any time, by using this quick “link”:

http://tinyurl.com/jjhjrrzs

 

I hope that at least some of these events will be of interest to you, and look forward to welcoming you, if one of mine finds its way into your calendar!

Philip Grant.

Licensing Committee attempts justice for Just Cravings AND local residents

 

Today's meeting of the  Alcohol and Entertainment Licensing Sub-committee went on for a very long time and  heard sometimes emotional arguments on both sides regarding Just Cravings' request  LINK for late night opening until 2am. The application did not involve the serving of alcohol. 

There was a recognition that Just Cravings was almost a victim of its own success, particularly the increased custom during Ramadan and the impact of its lively social media. Residents argued that the business was not suited to a residential area, although they recognised that not all the litter and noise they described was attributable to Just Cravings.

Having listened carefully to both sides of the argument and seeking answers to a range of questions the Committee went into private session and reported the following decision:

1. No customers shall be allowed into the venue or collect any product from the venue from midnight on Sundays to Thursdays.  On those days any orders from midniht shall be done by delivery services and by online only.

2. On Fridays and Saturdays the normal licensing hours to 2am are back and customers can come into the premises in person or can also order online.

A formal written notice of the decision will be sent to all parties later,

The recording of the hearing can be viewed HERE.