Local residents are busy submitting objections to a controversial Licensing application for Edo on Streatham High Road. (The former "La Pergola" at 66 Streatham High Road, by Broadlands Ave and Mount Ephraim Road.)
The application is to extend opening hours until 4am through the week. The bar has been plagued by complaints from residents in streets around it because it had already been opening late night despite the lack of a late licence. Residents have reported that the crowds drawn to the bar cause noise, nuisance and traffic problems.
Local police have taken a strong interest in the operation of the bar and its customers and will submit their own observations on the application. Concerns about the application were raised at August's St Leonard's Ward Safer Neighbourhoods Panel meeting, which heard a provocative report from Streatham's Inspector Duffy.
Following requests from residents, the three St Leonard's Ward councillors are strongly backing residents seeking to block the application.
Thursday, 21 August 2008
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Are the owners and operators "fit and proper" persons?.
As someone who has lived around the corner for 18 months and walks past it often at night and in the early hours, it has never seemed to be a well-run establishment.
To many local people of all ethnic backgrounds, it is very unwelcoming unlike the other local bars and pubs.
There are often "heavies" standing at its doors and frequent comings-and-goings of a type that suggest illicit trades being carried out.
It's the kind of place that girls, women and well-dressed men tend to cross the road to avoid - and that sooner rather than later will become the scene of another tragic fatal stabbing or shooting.
A good late night bar for the less orthodox amongst us in Streatham Hill - YES!
A hang out for drug dealers, pimps and their clients - NO (there are enough already...)!
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