At the last two council meetings, the debate on the proliferation of off licences in the city took place. The following was my contribution:

I found the planning document report weak in terms of protecting our local communities from the proliferation of off-licences and effects on a growing number of our young people.

I am calling for a review / SWOT analysis that apart from an infrastructure approach to granting off-licences that a more inclusive revieww -social and cultural be adapted by Council . There needs to be legislation in place to protect communities from the effects of selling large amounts of drink so that bush parties like those that appear in my ward are erased, minimalised and controlled.