EXTRA hours have been approved for a Weymouth take-away – although with restrictions on what drinks it can sell.

The business has already been trading outside the hours agreed by its Premises Licence and beyond the hours set out in its planning permission.

Dorset Police had objected to the original request for extra trading hours until 5am at the Seaside Pizza and Kebabs in Dorchester Road and asked for limits on what drinks could be sold.

The new hours will allow trading up to 2am throughout the week.

New conditions imposed by a Dorset licensing sub-committee will restrict the quantity of alcohol which can be sold and only with ‘a substantial meal’ and will stop the business displaying alcohol on the premises.

Until now sales have been limited to midnight Sunday to Thursday and until 1am on Friday and Saturday, although it was admitted by an agent for the business, Mr Phil Watts, that it was currently continuing until 1am Sunday to Thursday and until 2am on Friday and Saturday.

The hearing was also told that the premises was also in breach of planning consent by trading beyond the hours set by that agreement which limited trading from 9am until 11pm Sunday to Thursday and to 11.30pm on Friday and Saturdays.

The applicant, Mr Mahir Bayraktar, had originally asked for sales to be allowed to continue each day until 5am, but agreed to a police request to cut this back until 2am each day.

Limits will be set for the amount of alcohol sold with a meal – to 4 cans of beer, lager or cider; or one 375ml (half) bottle of wine; or one 20cl bottle of spirits; or 4 cans of pre-mixed spirit drinks or cocktails.

Customers receiving delivered drinks with a meal will have to produce a passport or driving licence to the delivery person, with deliveries only to verifiable domestic or business addresses, not to any open spaces. Those making the deliveries will have to use a body worn video camera to record every transaction, including age verification checks.

Drink sales from the shop will be limited to beers and lagers below 5.5 alcohol by volume with the business having at least one door supervisor on duty between midnight and closing.

Two residents had written to Dorset Council’s licensing committee about the proposed extension – one saying it would increase litter, the other saying it would be beneficial for Weymouth as a whole and would not cause concerns to immediate neighbours.

Kirsty Gatehouse, for Dorset Police, said that the Police were not against the application involving alcohol, but had concerns about the variety and strength of the alcohol proposed to be sold.

The council licensing committee agreed to the new conditions but said they were concerned that the business had not been complying with the terms of the current licence, or the planning permission for the premises.