Bracknell Forest Council's licensing panel will decide tonight on a new alcohol licence for the Premier convenience store near Crowthorne Station at 192 Dukes Ride.
Applicant Mohamed Ajmal Khan wants to sell alcohol seven days a week from 7am to 10.30pm. The shop would open at 6am and close at 10.30pm Monday to Saturday, and 7am to 10.30pm on Sundays.
Mr Khan describes the site as a "brand new store to serve [the] local community", offering newspapers, premium wines and spirits, beers, food to go, an in-store bakery, frozen foods and fresh produce under the Premier brand in partnership with Booker, part of the Tesco group.
Crowthorne Parish Council has asked that any licence mirror the neighbouring off-licence Dukes Food and Wine, which is licensed from 8am to 10pm. The council says it "does not object to the application in principle" but wants hours "in keeping with the other off licence nearby... to limit any adverse impact on residents in the flats above".
Thames Valley Police and Bracknell Forest Council have proposed conditions including digital CCTV covering the licensable area and the immediate outside with recordings kept for at least 31 days and staff trained to download footage. Other suggested measures cover staff training on Licensing Act objectives, a Challenge 25 policy, incident and refusals logs, litter management and checks on employees' right to work in the UK. If the applicant accepts these conditions, the police and council say they will not lodge objections.
The panel, sitting under the Licensing Act 2003, will decide whether to grant the application as submitted, modify the hours or conditions, or refuse the licence.
Ted O'Neill, Local Democracy Reporter
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