Subcouncil 19

Resolution detail

RESOLVED that,
 

The Extension of Liquor Trading Hours Application in respect of WCP/002312 Simon’s Town Bottle Store for Monday to Sunday Extended Off-Consumption Trading Hours be REFUSED, due to the following reasons:a) Drunk-driving road deaths being one of the highest in the world;

1. Anti-social behaviour, violence and crime;
2. Family violence (including gender-based violence) associated with alcohol consumption; and
3. Alcoholism amongst the street people is a major societal challenge.
4. The minister of Local Government, in court (August 2020), stated that of the 34 000 hospital trauma admissions per week over 50 % were linked to alcohol consumption.