Norbury Residents Associations Joint Planning Committee (JPC)
PREMISES LICENCES NEWS – AUGUST 2016
Premises Liences
The JPC has decided that from now on it will be look at premises licences.
Kings Chicken, 1369 London Road
The Licensing Committee of the Council is considering an application a licence for this take-away food shop to have a licence to be open until 2am Sunday to Thursday until 2am on the following days, and on Friday and Saturday until 4am on the following days.
The meeting will be held on 6 September at the Town Hall at 10am.
The number of fast food premises along Norbury’s stretch of London Rd is subject to continual complaint at General meetings of the Norbury Residents Associations and the public meetings that have been held by the Joint Planning Committee.
The JPC opposes this application for a licence for this take-away food shop to have a licence to be open until 2am Sunday to Thursday until 2am on the following days, and on Friday and Saturday until 4am on the following days.
The reasons for objection are as follows:
(1)While the Norbury High St section of London Rd has several restaurants, take-away food shops and 2 public houses, the normal closure time is 11pm.
(2)If granted this application will enable mean that there is only one venue open until 2 am on Sundays to Thursdays and until 4am on Fridays and Saturdays.
(3)This will make it vulnerable to criminal attempts to rob it. There will be no other venues open that can come to the aid of the staff or ensure the police are called. A resident has provided the Committee with the following account of problems around the premises, which suggest that longer opening may contribute to an increase in crime (attached as Appendix).
(4)There have been a number of robberies and attempted robberies of shop premises in the last 12 months, suggesting that Norbury is being seen as a target by criminals.
(5)Allowing a shop to remain open until 2am and 4am will create a noise problem for residents above the shops along that stretch of London Rd, from customers chatting, laughing, from any fights due to any customers being drunk at that time of the early morning, and by the closure of the shutters. It may well also attract motorists to stop to buy food and increase the level of vehicle noise when they re-start their engines to drive away.
(6)A growing element of the Norbury stretch of London Rd is residential. There has been a large increase in residents due to the use of Windsor House by the Council for homeless families, and the letting of units in Astral House, both on the other side of London Rd. The re-building of 1355-7 London Rd includes many flats. There has been several applications for additional flats or new flats in premises above shops along Norbury’s London Rd.
(7)As regards the homeless families some may have to travel late or early in a morning to keep their jobs, and additional noise could disrupt their sleep patterns.
(8)Noise from shops that are allowed to be open until 2am/4am will add to the noise along the Road and increase the aggravation for residents.
(9)Norbury is not the equivalent of the Croydon South Side restaurant quarter where people who live in residential units know what they have purchased or rented into in terms of potential noise problems from any premises with licences to 2am/4am.
(10)Granting of the this application may lead to other business owners considering applying for an extension up to 2am/4am to their existing licences, which will erode further the quality of life and well-being of residents.
(11)Given the concerns about the health aspects of fast chicken outlets, and the quality of the chicken meat they sell, granting an application would seem to go against the Council’s health policies.
(12)The planners have already been informed of the refreshment Havana premises at 1347 and 1363 London Rd premises along London Rd that open longer than they are licenced for and the noise problems that this creates for residents living above the shopping parades. Granting this application will only add to this problem, and may encourage the owner of the two premises to also seek an extension for of his licensing hours.
Delight Wedlinka 1355-57 London Rd
This property is where the Dreamlands shop units were. The whole building has been turned into flats with the ground floor frontage as shop units. The Delight Wedlinka, Polish grocery chain, are planned to run the shops. It has applied for a licence as a new premises.
It wants to open Monday to Sundays from 8am to 10pm including being able to sell alcohol during opening hours.
Norbury Residents Associations Joint Planning Committee (JPC)
TRAFFIC MEASURES NEWS – AUGUST 2016
In the light of three recent Controlled Parking Zone consultations in Norbury the JPC will now be looking at proposals for changes to parking and roads.
Road changes
Michelle Wildish, Consultation Officer, Transport for London, has informed the local Councillors of road changes along London Rd.
‘We are proposing changes to the footways on the A23 London Road between its junctions with Acacia Road on the west side and Norbury Avenue on the east side. We also propose to shorten the existing parking and loading bays on Norbury Avenue, by Norbury Park.
The changes intend to improve the shared-use pedestrian and cyclist area of the footway between Acacia Road and Norbury Avenue as part of our Quietways programme – a London-wide network of high-quality, well-signed cycle routes predominantly using back streets with lower traffic flows.
The changes would make it easier for cyclists to cross London Road as they continue their journey on Quietway 5, which runs from Waterloo to West Croydon.
To find out more and let us know what you think, please visit our website at https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/roads/cycling-a23-london-road-quietway5
The consultation runs until Monday 26 September 2016.’
Ian Plowright, Head of Transport at Croydon Council then
sent an email to local Councillors:
‘TfL has since confirmed that the wording in the email:
‘make it easier for cyclists to cross London Road as they continue their journey on Quietway 5, which runs from Waterloo to West Croydon’
is an error, and that the Quietway ends at London Road (at least unless/until a solution for Norbury Avenue is ever found which is acceptable to both local people and TfL). The text on the TfL consultation page (at the end of the link in the email) was corrected yesterday. However I checked the website a little earlier today and there was a link still on it described as a map of the route of the Quietway from Waterloo to West Croydon. I have asked that the link and map be removed.
I understand that TfL also wrote to 120 properties. I have asked for a copy of the letter and the list of addresses to be sent to me.
If you have any questions etc, please do not hesitate to contact me.’
This is an issue that residents along Norbury Avenue will want to be considering and submitting their views individually, and collectively through Norbury Avenue and Thornton Heath Residents Association.
Sean Creighton
Joint Planning Committee
31 August 2016
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