{"id":306619,"date":"2025-07-31T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306619\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:56:16","slug":"bar-on-one-of-liverpools-most-famous-streets-could-still-face-council-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306619\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar on one of Liverpool’s most famous streets could still face council penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penny Lane Wine Bar granted fresh premises licence but could face issues with planning department over hours\"PennyPenny Lane Wine Bar<\/p>\n

A wine bar on one of Liverpool\u2019s most famous streets could still face sanction from the city council despite being granted a fresh premises licence. Penny Lane Wine Bar has been given permission to open until 12.30am at weekends after a local authority hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n

However, planning officials have warned it could face an enforcement notice if it doesn\u2019t comply with building regulations around district centres. This has prompted the historic venue\u2019s owner to say curbing the hours of operation would effectively mean shutting down the business.<\/p>\n

Applicant Francye Woods has been granted permission to serve customers until 12.30am on Fridays and Saturdays and an hour earlier through the week. This came amid opposition from residents and local authority members about alleged noise issues.<\/p>\n

After the previous company responsible for the business went into liquidation, a new licence was sought. It has been operating on temporary event notices for the past five weeks.<\/p>\n

Since 1993, planning control was placed on the building which restricted use of the site to 11.30pm. Despite this, the council\u2019s building control department launched a probe into alleged activities beyond the agreed terminal deadline.<\/p>\n

Officer Stuart Clark said complaints were first received in 2022, five years after current operator Ms Woods took on the venue. Mr Clark said a letter was sent to the business in August 2022 instructing them to cease operations beyond the agreed time.<\/p>\n

He said a follow-up enforcement notice was due to be issued in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Ms Woods told councillors how she \u201cdidn\u2019t have a clue\u201d about the building restrictions and first became aware of the 11.30pm rule until last year when she received an enforcement notice.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Cllr Richard Kemp(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cIf I shut at 11.30, I may as well shut the business down.\u201d It was alleged the business operated until as late as 1.45am on Fridays and Saturdays despite the warnings not to.<\/p>\n

Ms Woods said the venue actually shuts \u201ca bit early because it\u2019s not worth it for a handful of people\u201d on most occasions.<\/p>\n

Cllr Richard Kemp, who represents the Penny Lane ward, said \u201ca lot of residents were adversely affected\u201d by the venue allegedly operating \u201cat a time when they shouldn\u2019t be opening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Cllr Kemp and a number of objectors said they didn\u2019t oppose the wine bar as a business, rather noise being kept to a minimum around their homes.<\/p>\n

He said it had become an \u201cunacceptable nuisance\u201d but did not want the premises shut down.<\/p>\n

As a result, it was agreed to grant a premises licence with a terminal hour of 12.30am on Fridays and Saturdays.<\/p>\n

However, sanctions may still be imposed by the separate planning enforcement team, Mr Clark warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penny Lane Wine Bar granted fresh premises licence but could face issues with planning department over hoursPenny Lane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,14487,108161,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-council","13":"tag-penny-lane","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114947960944983137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306619","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=306619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}