The company behind Admiral Casino on is appealing against the council’s decision to reject its bid to open 24 hours per day. Luxury Leisure wants to change the opening hours of the adult gaming centre but had its plans rejected by . Officials ruled in November last year that allowing the premises to operate 24/7 would be “detrimental” to residents due to “increased footfall and noise at unsocial hours”.
Currently, the centre can open from 8am to midnight after a condition was attached to the planning permission to “protect local residents from exposure to noise and disturbance”. However, the firm has argued its Queen Street premises operate “on a 24-hour basis without noise complaint” and that adult gaming centres “do not generate adverse impacts to amenity through 24/7 trading”. Councillors on the city’s planning review committee are set to rule on the appeal tomorrow (Tuesday).
Luxury Leisure has asked for opening hours of 8am to 4am seven days a week if the 24-hour bid is refused. The appeal initially went before the committee in May but was continued for more information. A report by officials states the council has “no record of receiving any complaints of noise or anti-social behaviour relating to the premises at 34 Queen Street or 335 Sauchiehall Street”.
Luxury Leisure has added the noise assessment which “accompanied the original application was produced in anticipation that the proposed gaming centre would operate 24 hours a day”. The.