Appendix 4  (8)

Subject:	FW: Letter of Objection to extending licensing hours at Lewes Golf Club
Attachments:	IMG_1987.jpg; IMG_1988.jpg; RE: Letter of Objection to extending licensing 
hours at Lewes Golf Club



From: Info   
Sent: 21 May 2019 11:48 
To: licensing; Sue Lindsey 

Subject: Letter of Objection to extending licensing hours at Lewes Golf Club

Lion House 8/9 Chapel Hill Lewes Lewes. BN7 2BB

Licensing Authority

We wish to object to the current application by Lewes Golf Club to extend their licensing 
hours.

Traffic along Chapel Hill is currently a matter of intense dissatisfaction to all the 
residents and to pedestrians who use it. A significant proportion of the existing traffic, 
going to and from the Golf Course at the top of Chapel Hill, ignore the law either by 
mounting the pavement or exceeding the speed limit. Our property has been struck on 5 
occasions in the last 12 months by vehicles which fail to stop or provide insurance 
details. Historic stone kerbstones and brick paviours have also been extensively 
damaged by vehicular traffic that they were never intended to bear. Furthermore the 
mandatory width limit of 7’ which applies to the full length of Chapel Hill is also flouted, 
and consequent damage caused by over-sized vehicles to lamp posts and property is 
already a very real problem. The Golf Club have shown themselves unable to deal with 
the existing problems caused by their current clientele (members, guests and visitors). 
We have no doubt that the Club management take their responsibilities seriously, and 
have tried their best to deal with these problems. Unfortunately their efforts have not 
been entirely successful. Recent temporary scaffolding placed on the pavement along 
Chapel Hill at the pinch point has kept all traffic off the pavement, proving that 
compliance is possible and suggesting that non-compliance is wilful. 

Existing traffic volume, and the behaviour of some of that traffic, is already a very 
significant b***dy nuisance. Pedestrians of all ages are currently put at risk by the 
criminal behaviour of a minority (it is a crime to drive on the pavement or to ignore the 
mandatory width limit or speed limit). We feel that the application to extend licensing 
hours and widen the clientele will simply turn Lewes Golf Club into a pub, thereby 
adding further misery to the residents of Chapel Hill and danger to pedestrians. We 
imagine that the Club will be even less successful in controlling the behaviour of random 
visitors and their vehicles. To license the club to sell alcohol to all comers at the top of a 
very steep hill, accessed by a long and narrow single track road, without lighting beyond 
the residential section, which existing traffic is unable to navigate properly without 
endangering pedestrians and residents, would seem to be a recipe for disaster for all 
concerned and would be manifestly unsafe and unreasonable. The fact that the club is 
situated so close to the edge of a huge near vertical chalk cliff face (visible to all traffic 
driving into Lewes just before the tunnel mouth) should also sound loud alarm bells to 
anyone interested in public safety. We hope that the application will be rejected.

Jonathan Barrett
Gillian Barrett

Attached 2 pictures of some recent damage.