Some have been charged thousands
The city council has approved plans to give night-time businesses across Nottingham a lifeline and scrap a levy on those which serve alcohol after midnight. The 'Late Night Levy' currently means venues must pay to remain open and trade in the city after midnight, having first been introduced back in 2014.
Melanie Bird, licensing compliance manager at Nottingham City Council, told a licensing committee meeting on Monday : "The fact is that this levy is disproportionately affecting businesses outside the city centre which are more likely to be family owned, single premises rather than a franchise. The covid pandemic highlighted the financial pressures on businesses and this approach would aim to reduce that burden.
Nottinghamshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner [PCC] Caroline Henry has spoken out against plans to scrap it, saying she was worried problems such as anti-social behaviour and football violence could increase if the levy was taken away. The money has been spent on overtime for police officers and on the cost of nine of the council’s community protection officers.
Mrs Henry said she had noted that the late night levy amounts collected in previous years had not been fully utilised and therefore commissioned an independent study on how to use late night levy funding to improve safety in the city centre night time economy after she was elected in 2021. Superintendent Kathryn Craner, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: "The removal of measures to prevent saturation of licensed premises, plus removal of the Late Night Levy contribution, could reduce the partnership opportunity to put additional safety measures in place to reduce ASB and violence associated with alcohol consumption."
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