{"id":8959,"date":"2024-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/2024\/01\/29\/greggs-scraps-bid-for-24-hour-licence-after-council-concerns\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T00:00:00","slug":"greggs-scraps-bid-for-24-hour-licence-after-council-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/greggs-scraps-bid-for-24-hour-licence-after-council-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Greggs scraps bid for 24-hour licence after council concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC reported that Greggs submitted an application to provide a round-the-clock service at its Canterbury city centre site last summer.<\/p>\n

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But the chain has since ditched the bid, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> (LDRS).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The planning withdrawal has been welcomed by those who believe St George’s Street – where McDonald’s, next door to Greggs, is already open 24 hours – can be “intimidating” at night.<\/p>\n

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Canterbury city councillor and Westgate ward resident Pip Hazelton opposed the application.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“My concern is up the top end of St George’s Street, there’s been a history of anti-social behaviour, of groups gathering and those kinds of thing.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The litter, the noise, even relatively small groups of people hanging about – that can be intimidating for other people.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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A Greggs spokesperson said: “We continue to look at opportunities to extend the opening hours of our shops.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The company previously attempted to get a licence for its Leicester Square branch<\/a> to operate 24 hours, but was blocked by Westminster City Council.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greggs has scrapped plans for a 24-hour licence at one of its Kent branches after fears were raised it could lead to anti-social behaviour.<\/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-8959","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\/8959","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=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}