Dark menace? Comments due by 15 April
It's only rumours, but we have heard it said that a dark kitchen is planned for the old Sauki restaurant premises. I can't think of a more ridiculous site for a hive of delivery motorbike activity. On the High St opposite a listed building, no parking anywhare near, just railings and double yellow lines. Also a heavily residential location. There is no planning request yet and local councillor Katherine reassured me that there are some planning controls possible (I believe it depends on the harm to local residents). But there is an alcohol licence application I've only just seen, with a closing date of 15th April, on a Sauki window. It talks about wanting an alcohol sales licence, in and outside, every day to 11pm and mentions take aways as well as waitress table service. Imagine the noise til after midnight. But look at the the plan at the end of the application - see the Unit 8 Brentford Lock application via https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20071/licensing/1998/pending_premises_licensing_applications It is really alarming. It shows a before-plan of an open restaurant area and an after-plan (no planning application for such a radical change of use) of a very large area of closed off space for kitchen, cold and freezer rooms, storage etc and only a tiny bit one end labelled "BAR" No sign of a restaurant and no room for a real one. Whatever you think do make your views about Unit 8 Brentford Lock, High Street, TW8 8AQ, known to the council via licensing@hounslow.gov.uk Personally I think it's been far too secretive to be anything but bad news for Brentford and does not seem to have been notified to many affected residents. Luckily we don't live in one of the flats above.
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