A new Indian restaurant in the city centre is now allowed to offer alcoholic beverages to its customers.
04.08.2023 - 19:19 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A board game café and a banquet hall in Manchester will soon be allowed to serve alcohol. But a new city centre bar's bid to sell booze has been refused.
Goodtime Games in Didsbury has been granted an alcohol licence despite objections from a neighbouring business. Empire House off Cheetham Hill is also now licensed after concerns about a brawl at the venue were addressed.
But a new bar which was due to open in Shudehill within weeks has had its application for an alcohol licence rejected. Manchester council also revoked a Collyhurst shop's licence at a town hall hearing on Tuesday (August 1) after hundreds of illegal cigarettes and vapes were seized in five raids since 2016.
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Councillors also approved changes to a Fallowfield convenience store's licence at the hearing after its owner pulled plans to extend its hours. But the licensing panel rejected an application from a Rastafarian Church in Moss Side to host an event on the Caribbean Carnival weekend despite offers to end it earlier.
The previous day (July 31), the licensing panel approved two more applications. The Red Lion pub in Withington won a battle to set up a bar in its beer garden.
The panel also approved a late night licence for a pizza takeaway in Burnage.
Here are all the decisions made by Manchester's licensing panel this week.
The vegetarian board game café in Burton Road has a 'bring your own bottle' policy, but it now wants to sell alcohol too. Managing director Tom Walker told the panel he put his 'heart and soul' into setting up the three-year-old business on a 'shoestring budget', but despite its popularity, it is struggling financially.
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A new Indian restaurant in the city centre is now allowed to offer alcoholic beverages to its customers.
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