Lidl’s plan involves opening a pub which would seat around 45 customers as well as an off-licence area, according to court records.<\/p>\n
The pub would allow customers to buy draft and bottled beer, wine, cider and spirits with the off-licence stocking products normally available on Lidl supermarket shelves.<\/p>\n
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The supermarket initially secured planning permission for the pub in August 2020, but it was objected to by Philip Russell Ltd – which runs a number of convenience stores across Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
Philip Russell Ltd argued that Lidl had failed to establish that there was an inadequate number of other licenced premises near the site.<\/p>\n
This is a requirement of licencing laws in Northern Ireland, which state that no new alcohol sale licences can be granted unless another one is surrendered.<\/p>\n
It also said Lidl’s application for an off-licence was an “impermissible attempt” to get around the Licencing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: But Mr Justice Colton determined that Lidl had established the “inadequacy” of local pub offerings.<\/p>\n He said Lidl’s pub would replace two pubs that were previously in the area, and it would spend at least \u00a3410,000 doing so.<\/p>\n He added that the pub would be located near transport and shopping facilities and in an area that has a growing adult population.<\/p>\n “I am satisfied that this is a bona fide application and that the applicant fully intends to operate the premises as a public on\/off-licence,” Mr Justice Colton said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lidl has been given approval by a High Court to open its first ever pub in Northern Ireland.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-335041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115008728629475472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335041","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=335041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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