The Met confirmed GB10 Sports Club staff acted responsibly and found no failings in the club’s management in response to the incident
An Eltham sports club wants to extend its opening hours after police investigated a stabbing that occurred at the premises earlier this year.
Met Police confirmed GB10 Sports Club staff acted responsibly and found no failings in the club’s management in response to the stabbing incident which occurred during a private party in April.
GB10 Sports at Footscray Playing Fields in Eltham—the home of AFC Greenwich Borough—has applied to Greenwich Council to open from 11am to 11pm Sunday to Thursday, and from 11am to 12.30am on Friday and Saturday nights. It currently opens from noon to 11.30pm every day.
The sports club also wants to extend the hours it can sell booze. At the moment, alcohol can be sold at GB10 between noon and 11pm and it has asked to start serving drinks between 11am and 11pm in the week, and 11am to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.
Greenwich Council’s Licensing Sub-Committee C will consider GB10’s premises licence application on Tuesday, August 25.
Nine neighbours have objected to the premises licence application fearing late night noise. The sports club has agreed to two conditions suggested by Greenwich’s community protection team to allay these concerns.
These are that no more than ten customers can be outside in the external smoking area at any one time after 9pm, and that all windows and external doors must remain closed after 9pm.
Last summer, GB10 received a warning after Greenwich Council received several complaints from nearby residents regarding late night noise on July 11. Concerns were also raised about the club advertising 50% off drinks two hours prior to Women’s Euros matches, something that Greenwich officers felt may have encouraged “irresponsible consumption”.
The club received another complaint on August 22, in which a resident said: “The music being played is extremely loud, with heavy bass vibrations that can be heard clearly in every room of my home.
“This has repeatedly disturbed my family, including my two children (aged three and one), who have been woken multiple times due to the intensity of the noise. The disruption is not only distressing, but also unacceptable in a residential area.”
However, GB10 has received no noise complaints regarding its licensed activities since then.
During a private party at the club in April, someone was stabbed at the premises. The stabbing was fully investigated by police who confirmed GB10 acted responsibly in response to the incident.
GB10 had a planning application to completely renovate the sports and event complex approved by Greenwich Council last December.
The proposal involved the construction of two 11-a-side floodlit AstroTurf pitches, five grass pitches of various sizes, six floodlit padel courts, a children’s play area, a car park and a brand new clubhouse at the site to replace the former one that burned down in 2004.
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