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Cotswold Service Station in Old Sodbury(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\nSouth Gloucestershire councillors will consider neighbours’ objections next weekCotswold Service Station in Old Sodbury(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n
Villagers are fighting plans for a petrol station to start selling alcohol and stay open for two hours later, fearing it could \u2018attract undesirables\u2019.<\/p>\n
Residents in Old Sodbury have objected to a premises licence application<\/a> for Cotswold Service Station in Badminton Road.<\/p>\n South Gloucestershire<\/a> Council licensing sub-committee will decide whether to approve or refuse the request at a meeting on Wednesday, June 11.<\/p>\n None of the authorities, including the police and trading standards, are opposing the application by Niza Southwater Ltd to sell booze for off-sales at the petrol station\u2019s shop from 6am to 11pm daily, and one neighbour has written in support.<\/p>\n But six others have lodged objections<\/a>.<\/p>\n One wrote: \u201cI object to this application as it can only lead to potential alcohol related problems in the village which, at present, does not attract undesirables.\u201d<\/p>\n Another said: \u201cI object on the grounds of there already being an element of antisocial behaviour in the village, post 9pm.<\/p>\n \u201cA late convenience store may well encourage this, particularly with the sale of alcohol and tobacco products.\u201d<\/p>\n A third added: \u201cI feel that opening until 11pm at this site is excessive.<\/p>\n \u201cThe site currently closes at 9pm.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the vendor feels that an extension is needed then perhaps 10pm would be acceptable.<\/p>\n \u201cThe area is very quiet by then and I just feel that 11pm is outside the general feel of the village.\u201d<\/p>\n Others said the petrol station already caused noise disturbance and traffic problems for neighbours and that an extension to closing time would make this worse.<\/p>\n But one resident wrote: \u201cI support this application as it will increase the offering to villagers, especially with it being the only shop in the village.\u201d<\/p>\n Try BristolLive Premium for FREE without intrusive ads and brilliant new features<\/p>\n No intrusive adverts, pop-ups or distractions! Just our brilliant content presented in the best way possible.<\/p>\n Get your free one-month trial by visiting the ‘Premium’ tab on the BristolLive app now (auto renews annually at \u00a319.99).<\/p>\n If you haven’t got it already, get started by downloading our app here on iPhone<\/a> or here on Android<\/a>. If you already have the app but can’t see the ‘Premium’ section, you’ll need to check for the latest update. More info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Gloucestershire councillors will consider neighbours’ objections next weekCotswold Service Station in Old Sodbury(Image: Google Maps) Villagers are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,285,10299,10302,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-158563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-south-gloucestershire","14":"tag-south-gloucestershire-council","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114627328529190466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}