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.
2 comments:
We all know this and others should be stopped. Perhaps the lobbyists are paying enough to MPs so that this party too won't change things.
Remember: we even have lobbyists on Planning Committee who never declare their conflict.
Of course there are also councillors who don't declare all their directorships! One wonders why the landlord councillors don't declare their portfolios?
Did anyone actually think a bingo hall was the actual plan? Smoke and mirrors!
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