There are many shops which have already been successful in getting new licenses and I’m sure the rest will be too when they have met all the conditions required. I have told 99% of new applicants that, once we have received their application form and payment, they may put their single A-Board on the pavement even though their licence has not been sent out to them and I have done this to help the traders out in these hard times. Those shops for which we have not received applications have been told not to put an A-Board out at all otherwise they face them being removed by this team and this will happen. I have also advised ALL traders that they are only allowed one A-Board and, from next week, any that are putting two or more out will be having them removed.

 I am checking the whole of Western Road on a regular basis and the other roads within the licensed area of the city in my patch but, as you will be aware, there are a lot of sites to monitor and this will not be resolved overnight after one visit so I would ask that you bear with us in this process. I can assure you that all sites will be checked and rechecked and any enforcement action necessary will be taken by this team across the licensed zones of the city.

I hope this is informative and helpful for you and I would appreciate you notifying your members that action is on-going to resolve the issues raised by the residents association.

Hamish