This meeting was scheduled to consider two applications for changes to existing premises licences in Islington.

The Upper Place, First Floor, Nags Head Market, 22 Seven Sisters Road, N7 6AG

The Upper Place is on the first floor of Nags Head Market. The owners applied to vary the existing premises licence to allow:

• Sales of alcohol until 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays, an hour later than currently allowed.
• Opening hours until 10:30pm on Fridays and Saturdays, also an hour later than currently allowed.

The application also proposed changes to a number of the licence conditions.

One local resident objected to the application, arguing that the changes to conditions mean that:

The exceptions to Islington’s cumulative impact policy on which the original Premises Licence was granted in June 2023 will no longer be applicable...

The resident also stated that:

...[M]any would say that we have not seen any high standards of management since the premises licence was granted last year. Our streets are still heavily littered by the market and other takeaway outlets. No-one clears it up.

The applicant responded to the resident's objections, and a copy of this response was included in the report pack, but not published on the council website.

The Shoap, 406 St John Street, EC1V 4NJ

The Shoap applied to vary the existing premises licence to allow:

• Sales of alcohol from 8am to 10pm from Monday to Sunday. The current licence allows sales from 11am to 10pm, Mondays to Saturdays only.
• Opening hours until 10:30pm from Monday to Sunday. The current licence allows opening from 8am to 10pm, Mondays to Saturdays only.
• Opening hours until midnight on 30 November (St Andrews Day), 25 January (Burns Night), Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. The current licence allows this, but only until 11pm.
• Opening hours until midnight for Scotland national football team and Scotland national rugby union team international matches.

The applicant also proposed a change to condition 12 of the licence to allow:

Alcohol... to be served on the premises as an ancillary to a food order to customers who are seated with the exception of a maximum of 8 persons standing while waiting for a table or seating to become available during busy periods.

One local resident objected to these changes, arguing that the applicant is attempting to:

...[C]ircumvent the Council's cumulative impact designation...

The applicant responded to the resident's objections, and a copy of this response was included in the report pack, but not published on the council website.