A city centre cocktail bar under pressure over noise complaints has submitted an plans to open at a new venue.
Proprietors of On Point on Victoria Street had been expected to be hauled in front of Liverpool Council’s licensing and gambling sub-committee earlier this month to defend its right to trade alcohol after complaints were made about noise from the venue. That meeting was deferred after Cllr Nick Small, who applied for a licence review, was unable to make the crunch hearing.
After confirming to the ECHO the current venue would be vacated, On Point bosses have now put in a proposal to Liverpool Council for its new site 300m away on Eberle Street. The new bar will be known as It’s On Point and is seeking to serve alcohol on and off the premises from midday to 1.45am Thursday to Saturday and midday to 1am Sunday to Wednesday.
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On Point hopes to secure a licence to open until 2am Thursday to Saturday and 1am Sunday to Wednesday. The application includes a request to have live music indoors from midday to midnight every day while recorded music would be played until 2am Thursday to Saturday.
On its social media pages, On Point describes itself as Liverpool’s first fully interactive cocktail bar.
The current bar on Victoria Street opens from 4pm to 11.45pm on Thursdays, 4pm to 1am on Fridays and Saturdays, and 4pm to midnight on Sunday. It has a premises licence that permits the performance of live music and playing of recorded music during its opening hours. The licence was awarded by Liverpool Council in May 2020.
A review into its existing licence was instigated last month and a spokesman for the business said it had expected to resolve the issues quickly. They told the ECHO last month the bar had “the support of the wider community” with multiple letters of support sent to Liverpool Council, including from an unnamed member of the licensing and sub-committee.
Things between the bar and Cllr Small have become heated since the proceedings were listed, with a Twitter spat breaking out over the nature of his complaints on behalf of residents.
