A HEREFORD restaurant is expanding as it looks to open a tapas bar next door – but bosses are having to ask if they can sell alcohol.
The owners of The Den, in Hereford's Bridge Street, applied to Herefordshire Council for a premises licence to cover the sale of alcohol and late night refreshments.
The application form said it was for 15 Bridge Street, next door to The Den, and The Den was looking to open a restaurant specialising in the Spanish cuisine.
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"The Den is a pre-existing and successful restaurant business that is now opening up a food-led tapas bar in the next door premises," documents said.
"This will be an entirely separate entity albeit in an adjoining building and there will be no 'knock through' to unite them."
The application said the owners wanted to be able to sell alcohol from 9am until midnight every day.
The opening hours of the new restaurant would be the same.
Permission to sell late-night refreshments was also asked for, between 11am and midnight every night.
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But consultants working on the scheme for The Den, which opened in Bridge Street in 2018, said they wanted to see opening hours extended until 1am on Valentine's Day, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, Bank Holidays and Sundays before Bank Holidays
The new restaurant said it would also take steps to promote the four licensing objectives, including CCTV to prevent crime and disorder, keeping and incident log, appropriate first aid and a challenge 25 policy.
Consultation ends on June 17.
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