Plans to open a late night train depot in a quiet part of Battersea have been rejected by Wandsworth Council's licensing sub-committee.
On Tuesday councillors turned down proposals for the Old Train Depot in Silverthorne Road. The application outlined plans for the venue to sell alcohol and play music until midnight every weeknight and 1am on Friday and Saturday nights.
The venue, which would have accommodated up to 300 people, would under current licensing laws have also been allowed to open with completely unrestricted hours on as many as 24 occasions a year if it had been granted a licence.
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But after listening to council officers who expressed their concerns and residents who raised a flood of objections, the plans were rejected.
Licensing chairman Councillor Stewart Finn said: "These plans were not at all suitable for such a quiet residential area.
"There were very widespread and well-founded concerns about noise - both from inside the venue itself and also from the late night comings and goings of its patrons.
"The applicants had said they were going to cater for the corporate hospitality market, and that it would not be open to ordinary members of the public. However, their plans to bus in hundreds of people in coaches or taxis would have caused unacceptable noise disturbance and inconvenience to local residents.
"And because Silverthorne Road is quite narrow, we felt that the likely traffic chaos created by a fleet of buses or taxis picking up and dropping off hundreds of guests at the same time was simply unacceptable."
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