West Yorkshire Police, local councillors and Leeds’ environmental health unit all opposed the store’s application
A Leeds shop owner says he fears aggressive customers may “kick off” if the city council prevents him from selling alcohol earlier in the day.
But for a licence at a hearing on Tuesday, citing concerns around Harehills’ street drinking problems. Mr Bhogal did not attend the hearing at Leeds’ Civic Hall, but offered a written response to objectors’ who’d put forward their concerns in advance.In it, he suggested he was unable to open the shop any earlier than 11am, because it was unviable without an alcohol licence.
“But I can’t open because I don’t have a alcohol licence. I don’t want to take any risks because if someone asks me to sell alcohol and I refuse, he might start kicking off and create the problem.Mr Bhogal said he’d been running the store for three months and that his customers “are really good and happy”. R S Mini Market, on Markham Avenue, falls in Harehills’ cumulative impact area, where the council is seeking to limit the availability of cheap booze.
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