Residents in an east Leeds community say they fear an increase in crime and anti-social behaviour if a new convenience store is allowed to sell alcohol.
Sam’s Mini-Market, on Dib Lane, has asked the council for a licence to sell booze between 7am and 11pm daily. The premises, which falls within Leeds’ Seacroft and Killingbeck ward, is being set up in the former Fulton Foods store on the road’s parade of shops.
But some neighbours claim allowing another retailer to sell booze will cause them a nuisance and potentially make local littering and crime worse. Five written objections and a petition with 31 signatures have been circulated against the application.
