'Older male groups' who arrive on coach trips are causing issues with public urination and sexual harassment on the Otley Run in Leeds, meeting hears
A licensing committee meeting on Tuesday, where the extension was confirmed, was told that the demographic of drinkers doing the crawl had shifted towards older groups.
Nicola Raper, from the authority’s entertainment licensing team, said: “I wouldn’t say this for definite, but I don’t think the students are the problem.“It’s more the people coming in from out of town. We hear of coaches that are actually dropping people off at 10 o’clock in the morning and they’re coming from other areas outside of Leeds.Ms Raper said the council was working with pubs on the crawl and that venues “accepted responsibility” for bad behaviour on their own premises.
But it does make it much harder for a bar or pub to set up in the area, with new applicants having to demonstrate that they would not add to the anti-social behaviour at the very least.Similar restrictions on new licences remain in place around the city centre, Hyde Park, Armley and Harehills and Burmantofts.
The committee was also told that the zone around Armley may be extended in the new year, following suggestions it should cover all of Town Street.Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
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