Late night alcohol delivery? Is Okehampton ready for it?

By EddieGrundy | Thursday, August 05, 2010, 12:07

Even Okehampton (finally) has a pizza & kebab delivery service and Indian meals are available on the end of the phone... but what about booze? Drink available 'til 4 in the morning? Make the call and along comes another bottle of JD and two dozen cans of lager...

Exeter residents will be having more than milk delivered to the door

This is just what a new Exeter business, Party Cellar, is offering the city. They've been granted a licence to supply alcoholic drinks, using a central warehouse and delivery vans, through the night.

Would you use such a service? Would Okehampton be a better place for 'drink direct' all night?

Police don't think so. They said that their main concern was alcohol-related disorder if people who were already drunk went home and ordered more. It could make alcohol-fuelled violence worse and promote binge drinking. And isn't that just what would happen?

Of course, before the change in the laws relating to alcohol, this licence would have come before the magistrates, and the police would have objected. Magistrates seldom granted licences in the light of negative police reports.

But Exeter City Council said that its licensing sub-committee found no evidence for a reason to refuse to grant the licence or restrict it. Perhaps they weren't listening to the right people!

What happens in Exeter and other cities won't be long in coming to smaller towns. What will your reaction be when it hits Okehampton?

Comment right here! (I think the world will be divided...)

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The Police did object, but it took several delayed appeal hearings to finally be heard. 5 months from application approx to the have opportunity to show how the business will be conducted in a professional and responsible way. So in one way the process was discouraging in setting the business up. Also, the business isnt interested in 'binge drinking idiots' for customers. Just the mature sensible people who would value and use a service of this sort.

By PartyCellarPR at 22:05 on 18/08/10
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Licencing through the local authority was supposed to give local communities a better say in the licences that were granted. This has not proved to be the case. How involved do you feel in the licensing process now that it is handled by your local councillors? Magistrates now only handle appeals and we receive very few.

By Kaybickley at 17:18 on 05/08/10
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