Cricket fans will be able to watch the match with a cold beer after a club was given the green light to serve alcohol within its grounds. Tonge Moor Cricket Club applied to change the licence to enable it to sell alcohol on special events days and allow patrons to drink around the cricket ground with the club have effectively a beer garden. The application to vary the licence was put forward by Chairman Gareth Oliver and Designated Premises Supervisor, Thomas Schofield.
The sale of alcohol, the application outlined, will be on events such as fun days at Christmas or Bonfire Night and special match tournaments which will include one or two small gazebos on the grounds. It also stated that the consumption of alcohol on the grounds will be akin to a beer garden and will enable spectators to enjoy a drink on the grounds on match days and special event days. The sale of alcohol would be confined to the area’s main front area and the club house, which was refurbished earlier this year.
(Image: Google maps) A request was made to extend the times for activities including indoor sporting events, live music indoors and outdoors, performance of dance and late-night refreshments. Chairing the meeting, Cllr David Chadwick asked how they planned to control boisterous and anti-social behaviour on site. The two reassured the panel that staff and door supervision will always be in operation and will remove unsociable personnel from the premises if necessary.
They also installed a panic butt.