{"id":8908,"date":"2023-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/2023\/12\/13\/glasgow-strip-club-gets-4am-alcohol-licence-despite-concerns\/"},"modified":"2023-12-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T00:00:00","slug":"glasgow-strip-club-gets-4am-alcohol-licence-despite-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/glasgow-strip-club-gets-4am-alcohol-licence-despite-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow strip club gets 4am alcohol licence despite concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platinum Lace got permission to serve booze to customers until the early morning hours as a licensing board meeting heard they faced strict regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo News reported that the Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) objected to the move with a representative saying that reducing the hours of sale for alcohol can limit harm from consumption.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, licensing lawyer Stephen Mc Gowan, representing applicant Brightcrew Ltd, said there is no \u201ctargeted\u201d evidence of harm presented by the HSCP.<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out the city\u2019s two other lap-dancing clubs \u2013 Diamond Dolls and Seventh Heaven \u2013 have already been granted permission to sell <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/food_drink\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" data-ylk=\"slk:drink;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"7\" data-v9y=\"1\">drink<\/a> until that time and he asked for a \u201clevel playing field\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the licensing board on Friday, the HSCP representative pointed out the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" data-ylk=\"slk:World;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid_p=\"8\" data-v9y=\"1\">World<\/a> Health Organisation (WHO) said reducing the hours when alcohol is available can limit related harm.<\/p>\n<p>Describing how sexual entertainment venues run a \u201ctight ship\u201d, councillor Alex Wilson said they face extra regulations and are scrutinised more than other premises.<\/p>\n<p>Mr McGowan told the board alcohol sales are modest in the venues.<\/p>\n<p>The variation of premises licence for on sales was granted at the Drury Street club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Glasgow strip club has been given the go-ahead to sell alcohol until 4am after a health spokeswoman raised concerns about the bar staying open later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}