We’re behind Towie star’s Grand plan (From Echo)

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  ClockingIn wrote:
  It’s the LATE license that is the issue, which is why there were so many objections. 1.15 still not enough! Even residents who were previously undecided must be thinking that this latest statement seems unreasonable. It must be the best regular license ever granted to any application in Leigh. Where is the compromise? Apart from those actual that use it many local residents will soon fall out of love with the building due to late night disturbance and lack of sleep.
  
  A 2 pm closing time will set a dangerous precedent for late hours granted in the area. Other bars will surely be within their rights to apply for the same license. This could easily double the 500-600 people walking the streets in the early hours, having a wider impact on even more residents, which is why longer hours could have an affect on others, and not just those near the Grand. More people, more drinking, doesn’t take much working out. I’m amazed that a later license can ever be considered, not just now but anytime in the future. What would stop the current applicant or future owners removing the tables and chairs and turning it into a club?
  
  We are already at saturation point in Leigh, and it arguably just about works at present. I think local residents have been more than lenient over the years, rather than being portrayed as moaners to this latest application. Any license beyond 1 pm, let alone 1.15 in a residential area, is not a compromise. The Grand used to close at 11.30 pm and it still had its issues and now has the option for a 1.15 am license. It’s unfair and unreasonable to expect longer hours. There are plenty of short-term views, what about long-term. How will the people leaving the bars who don’t live in the area get home? Who is going to police it, especially with all the cut backs in public spending, but this will mean extra police we will be needed, and for longer. Unworkable and unimaginable!
  
  And by the way why would Tesco’s want it. Why spend millions for a site that could only hold a handful of cars, compared to their normal large spacious sites, that can hold hundred of cars. You have a choice Tesco by the A127 or take a chance you can park on a double yellow in Leigh. And do they operate on 3 to 4 floors.

  if you don't like noise why the hell did you move so near a town high street?
  if you don't like it move that building and the high street was there long before you was, what gives residents the right to move to a place and expect it to change for them. if you want someone quiet why don't you move to the countryside."
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