A bar operator has questioned whether licensing restrictions in place in Swansea's Wind Street for years should be renewed as part of a review. Bruno Nunes said he believed society was changing and that the days of the "vertical drinking, volume-led" business model were gone.
"It is no longer cool to get p*ssed beyond oblivion," said Mr Nunes, who owns Peppermint, Bambu Beach Bar and BrewDog, all in Wind Street. He was speaking after it emerged at a council licensing meeting in July that a policy which required new licensing applications to be refused in Wind Street and surrounding streets if they were likely to add to the cumulative impact - although there were exceptions - had expired.
This cumulative impact policy was introduced nine years ago due to the number of venues serving alcohol in Wind Street, High Street and some surrounding roads and linked incidents of crime, disorder and public nuisance. The policy has been reviewed since, and the council was supposed to assess it again last year but didn't, blaming the Covid-19 pandemic. It means the policy is no longer in force, although there haven't been any announcements to this effect. You can get more Swansea news and other story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here.
