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BBC News
12-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Hove: Hecklers disrupt bowling club's alcohol licence hearing
Angry hecklers disrupted a virtual council meeting in which a bowling club was applying for permission to sell alcohol. A licensing panel hearing on Monday was interrupted by angry neighbours of Hove and Kingsway Bowling Club alleging previous anti-social behaviour and noise incidents from the complained of loud rock bands curtailing her "human rights" to have her windows open during the summer. But a spokesperson for the club, which has 700 members, said there had been no such complaints since it relocated to a new site nearby two months ago. Now part of the outdoor sports hub building created as part of Brighton and Hove City Council's £15m seafront revamp, the club's change of address has necessitated it having to reapply for an alcohol permit. The club, described as "a bit overzealous" with its previous events, has applied to sell alcohol from 11:00 to midnight Monday to Saturday. Some residents spoke of people urinating outside after leaving one Christmas party and asked for assurances that alcohol would only be sold to club said their requests for "moderation and a reasonable set of behaviour" had so far been the club's agent, Nick Semper, founder of The Licensing Guys, said the hearing concerned the current application only, not a review of what might have gone on before. He said there was no evidence of disorder or complaints in the papers presented to the panel, but conceded the club could install a noise limiter if required. Neighbours were also given assurances that events would not spill outside onto the bowling greens. Neither the council's licensing or environmental health teams objected to the application, although the latter asked for the club's doors and windows to stay closed unless people were arriving or panel - councillors David McGregor, Ivan Lyons and Alison Thomson - retired to reach their decision, which should be made public within five working days.
BBC News
31-01-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Brighton and Hove: Parents protest at proposed school changes
Parents concerned about proposals to change secondary school admissions staged a protest outside council offices on and Hove City Council in East Sussex wants to reduce the intake at three secondary schools, introducing an open admission policy and change the catchment areas for Longhill and Varndean and Dorothy authority said this will give parents more some parents claim it could mean up to 250 pupils having to travel long distances to get to school. Dozens of parents protested outside Hove Town Hall before a meeting of the full council on eight-week consultation into the plans ends on Friday. Parent Sally Bunkham said: "These plans would mean friendship groups would be completely broken up across the city, children would be sent in different directions away from their community, spending loads of time commuting."It's not increasing choice, it's slightly increasing chance for some families."Another parent, Anna Mouser, said: "Only one in four kids who don't have an older sibling are going to be going to their local school."We're talking about over an hour's travel each way for children who are 11. It won't actually fix anything, it's moving kids around like numbers on a spreadsheet." Jacob Taylor, deputy leader of the Labour-run council, said the authority was trying to tackle several problems."We have falling pupil numbers and we have to address that issue" he said."There has been a long standing issue where some people feel their choice of schools is not as broad as others, so it's about saying 'could we have a fairer system?'"Some parents in the central areas don't feel that this system is fair for them, and we have to weigh that up in the consultation."He said more than 3,000 people have responded to the consultation.
