Potteries Shopping Centre applies for alcohol licence
A MULTI-MILLION pound extension to a city centre shopping centre could include a late night alcohol and music licence.
The owners of The Potteries Shopping Centre in Hanley have applied for licences for its new cinema and restaurant expansion.
In documents seen by The Sentinel, the Capital Shopping Centres Group Plc (CSC) has applied to screen films and recorded music as well as serve alcohol and late night refreshments.
If approved, the licences would be granted as part of the £15 million extension, which is sheduled to be completed by 2015.
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The eight-screen multiplex cinema, six restaurants and a new leisure attraction is expected to create 180 jobs.
Councillor Paul Breeze, chairman of the Hanley One Residents' Association, said: "I think it is very positive to see them pushing on with these plans and apply for the licences. It will push open a dismal gateway into the city and provide another facility and entertainment for the people of Stoke-on-Trent."
The application follows a series of reported difficulties related to the expansion.
The Sentinel revealed how Stoke-on-Trent City Council refused to sell land in Brewery Street and Bryan Street for the initial redevelopment plans – leading to them being scaled back.
One restaurant was made smaller and another dropped altogether.
It also emerged that the shopping centre was battling to sign up the Vue cinema chain along with the developers of City Sentral.
However, CSC chief executive Mike Butterworth denied that there had been complications. "We have got our own planning consent to extend and so we are concentrating on doing our own thing," he said.
"We know that there is a demand for it and for the cinema to open.
"People want this, and it will complement the Potteries Shopping Centre."
The group has applied to play films and recorded music from 10am to 2.30am, to serve alcohol from 10am to midnight, and to provide late night refreshments from 11pm to 2.30am.
Mr Butterworth said the preferred cinema chain has not yet been decided and is still 'with the lawyers'.
He added: "I think it is a really good plan because it is certain and not just up in the air."
Comments
by amartinone
Monday, January 07 2013, 7:43PM
“The way licensing works, the council has to allow an alcohol licence, unless they can prove that it would cause a public nuisance. Considering the number of clubs already on Bryan Street, I doubt they could do this. These are similar reasons to why they had to allow planning permission, before refusing to sell the land.”
by deluded366
Saturday, January 05 2013, 4:42PM
“Yup, good luck to them.
As much as the extention is a great thing for this town centre, if the council don't want it, and it's clear they don't, they will do everything they can to stop it. Not allowing this licence is just another way they can set CSC back so they can throw money at a company who is already so far in debt they could go bankrupt any day to build a shopping centre that is set to fail before the land it's being built on has even been cleared...
Gotta love Stoke On Trent.”
by lagu2
Saturday, January 05 2013, 12:07PM
“Good luck tho them , they will need it with this council. If they do not want it , it will not be passed. if it is something they want it will sail through planning and licencing”