Item 4 - Letter Lidl Objection_Redacted
West Dunbartonshire Council · 31 October 2023
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Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS Board is the common name of Greater Glasgow Health Board NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Public Health JB Russell House Gartnavel Royal Hospital 1055 Great Western Road GLASGOW G12 0XH Tel. 0141 201 4444 Fax. 0141 201 4401 Textphone: 0141 201 4400 www.nhsggc.org.uk Date 4th August 2023 Our Ref EC/RB Enquiries to Emilia Crighton Direct Line 0141 201 4623 E-mail Dear Clerk to the Licensing Board, LICENSING BOARD APPLICATION: WDLBPREM0313 Thank you for notification of the above application for a provisional premises licence for Lidl, Mitchell Way, Alexandria, G83 0LW, where the applicant intends to open a new superstore. I, as remitted by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board, have reviewed the application and the relevant evidence and object to the licence requested on the grounds that: it is inconsistent with the licensing objective of Protecting and Improving Public Health The premises would be located in Intermediate Zone IZ16, which is named in the West Dunbartonshire Licensing Board Policy Statement (November 2018)1 as IZ16 Alexandria Central, Rosshead & Dalmonach and is a designated area of overprovision. Within the IZ16 Alexandria Central, Rosshead & Dalmonach area there are currently 5 off-sales premises, including an Aldi and Coop which have considerable alcohol display capacities combined. The proposed addition of 69.6m2 of alcohol, increasing to 80.5m2 throughout the festive period would risk substantially exacerbating the already very elevated levels of alcohol related harms experienced by the local population. The most recently published alcohol-related health data for IZ16 Alexandria Central, Rosshead & Dalmonach includes the following: Alcohol Related Hospital Admissions The evidence considered by the Licensing Board in January 2018 showed that the rate in IZ16 was 80.7 per 10,000 HoP which was higher than Scotland at the time (62.3 per 10,000). The most recent data shows this has increased to 132.3 per 10,000 and remains higher than Scotland as a whole, where the rate has decreased over the same period (to 61.1 per 10,000). Alcohol Related Deaths The evidence considered by the Licensing Board in January 2018 showed that the rate in IZ16 was 3.3 per 10,000 HoP which was higher than the 1 https://www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/media/4315882/statement-of-licensing-policy-2018-2022.pdf
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