A west Leeds convenience store is facing huge resistance to its plan to sell alcohol up to 24 hours a day. Booze Plus, on the junction between Tong Road and St Mary’s Close in Armley, has applied for a round-the-clock premises licence from Leeds City Council.
But West Yorkshire Police and the council’s public health and environmental health teams have objected to the idea. One local resident has also called for the application to be dismissed, saying: “Who really needs to buy a 6-pack and a bottle of vodka at 3am? And would you want them hanging around your house at such a time?”
The neighbour, whose written objection was anonymised in papers released ahead of a hearing next Tuesday, added: “As it is, I regularly have to recycle the empties dumped on my premises, having been bought during normal licencing hours.
