Rejected petition Allow Cafés & Restaurants trade at lunch time without offering alcohol

Allowing customers to spend short periods in cafés, at lunchtime, around 9am - 4pm as long as they adhered to public health guidance, some Cafés closing because the Licensing Law, sees as the unfairness in the way that licensed and unlicensed cafés are treated.

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