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Ray Waddington-Jones

Meeting of the Licensing Sub-Committee in York House, Thursday 22nd September at 12.30 p.m.

Submission by Mr R. and Mrs B. Waddington-Jones, 16 Clive Road.

We apologise for the lateness of this objection to St MaryÂ’s application for a drinking and entertainment licence until 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and until midnight on the other days of the week, rather than 11 p.m. until now. We registered an objection on our own behalf just in time, but since then we have consulted with residents of the north side of Clive Road and now ask the committee to regard it as a group objection rather than an individual one. There is no objection to the other sections of the application.

I quote a sentence from Planning Committee last April when it considered the expansion of the halls of residence, now completed: “Members’ chief concern was over the proximity of the southernmost hall to residential properties near the south-east corner of the site”. Those properties are in Clive Road.
Clive Road is quite close to the Union bar, but you will know that noise is not a problem in a bar so much as outside it when clients leave. Few students will head for public transport after 1 a.m., or for cars if they have been drinking until that hour; the late licence will attract those who only have to head for the halls of residence, now doubled in size and capacity, across the college fields.

In Clive Road we are well accustomed to occasional outbursts of shouts, shrieks and merriment between 11 am and midnight. We are not killjoys and donÂ’t make serious objection. But it seems that in future there will be twice as many students crossing the field, and any disturbance will be between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. on two days, and after midnight the rest of the week, if the application succeeds. This is an entirely different matter.
Not many students are aware that there are houses with people, including children, sleeping in them only yards away. We think dancing and drinking to the early hours twice a week is inappropriate in a residential area. Anyone who wants late night activity at the weekend can find plenty in Richmond and other nearby towns.

We urge the sub-committee to amend the application and end the licence at 11 p.m. on every day of the week as at present.

Signed by residents of Clive Road: