At Cheadle Area Committee this evening we spoke to the Police licensing officer for the Stockport area.  With over 900 pubs, take-aways, off-licences and restaurants along with some other bits and pieces too, he’s got his work cut out.

We were told that Gatley’s Red Lion Pub is being sold by the brewery and will not re-open as a pub (I can’t guarantee that, of course – just passing on the information we’ve been given).

We had a discussion about Pub Watch – going well in Cheadle but falling down a little in Gatley.

Other points of note:

• A new scheme will see people barred from all the pubs in their area if they’re convicted of domestic violence after being out drinking.
• Cheadle Hulme pub watch is being linked into Cheadle’s successful scheme.
• The police have detected less drug use in pubs than when they started doing passive checks eight months ago (they use passive sniffer dogs and check toilets for traces of cocaine).

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