Strict licensing laws, problems with crime and eye-watering costs: London’s nightlife venues underperforming, City Hall told
by BulkyAccident
Strict licensing laws, problems with crime and eye-watering costs: London’s nightlife venues underperforming, City Hall told
by BulkyAccident
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‘Night Czar’: But some random social media account said London has one of the best clubs in the world so theres no problem!
Khan deserves all the hate for his taxpayer funded 120k p/a Night Tzar, what an utter failure.
The eye watering costs are the price of drinks and food in central London.
What’s tourists paying VAT got to do with a booming nightlife, the kind of people coming here to spend where that becomes a factor are people that can afford it, which is why it barely made a blip.
Short of consolidation through the licensing system to a handful of places so they can concentrate policing I’m not sure there’s much to do given the demand for late night hospitality just isn’t there. Unless they’re bold about targeting some areas as the expense of others I’m not sure the issues actually fixable as ultimately the market moved and Central London just lost and there’s no getting it back without restructuring and cutting the dead wood. Which isn’t a City Hall problem really as it’s not really for City Hall to make those kinds of structural decisions.