Peterborough takeaway The Hungry Boys Cafe to close and reopen as an off licence

A Peterborough takeaway will close and re-open as an off licence.

The Hungry Boys Cafe in Broadway, which currently sells pizza, burgers and kebabs, will instead become the Eastfield Off Licence and no longer sell hot food.

Its owner, Mehdi Amani, said that business at the takeaway is “not good”, resulting in the change of tack.

His application to Peterborough City Council (PCC) to sell alcohol was approved despite an objection from the Broadway Residents’ Association.

The association said that “alcohol related crime and disorder are common in the Eastfield Road area with street drinking, abuse and threatening behaviour towards pedestrians and residents and vandalism to private and public properties by individuals under the influence”.

But PCC’s licensing committee said that it would grant the application for the sale of alcohol between 9am and 11pm daily as it hadn’t received objections from statutory bodies relating to crime and disorder such as the police.

Man stripped of personal licence after sexual assault conviction

At the same licensing committee meeting, another individual – Alan Price – was stripped of his personal licence which also allowed for the sale of alcohol.

Police requested that his licence be revoked as he was convicted of sexual assault at Southampton Crown Court in August, which they say makes him unfit to hold it.

Mr Price, of 54 Shirley Road, Southampton, SO15 3EX, was granted the licence by PCC in 2017 under the name Raymond Alan Rayner.

He has also variously gone by the names of Alan Wilkinson and George Coulson.

The offence he was convicted of took place at the Waterloo Arms in Southampton.

He was handed a three month sentence, suspended for 15 months.

Cllr Sandra Bond (Liberal Democrats, Gunthorpe), chairing the licensing meeting, said that the committee “takes a very serious view of this conviction”.

Neither Mr Price nor a representative attended the hearing.