Article: Families want ban on early hours drinking

RESIDENTS in Selly Oak want to call time on all pubs and restaurants which are demanding drinks licence extensions into the early hours of the morning.

Community groups also want to know why several massage parlours and gentlemen's clubs are continuing to operate illegally along the Bristol Road.

The city council's principal enforcement officer Brian Morley and the principal licensing officer Alan Tolley were on hand at a packed Selly Oak ward committee to field questions on these issues.

Steve Barrett, of the Tiverton Area Residents' Association, said one gentlemen's club had been operating for two years without planning permission, while another two had no licence.

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