' CANTON SPORTS BAR LICENCE SUSPENDED '

City Sports Bar in Canton licence suspended after complaints

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The police listed 19 incidents since July 2012.

A sports bar which has attracted a string of complaints from police and residents has had its licence suspended for 10 weeks.

Nineteen incidents of disturbances, assault and damage had been reported to police in less than three years at the City Sports Bar in Canton, Cardiff.

Drugs were also seized in a police raid at the end of March.

The bar has 21 days to appeal the decision, during which time it can remain open.

Cardiff council's licensing sub-committee met for more than five hours on Friday to discuss action.

If the bar fails to appeal, it will have to close for 10 weeks and will have to satisfy a list of conditions if it is to reopen.

This includes having no music or live bands, employing door staff and using plastic glasses on match days.

Supt Stephen Jones, of South Wales Police, applied to councillors to review the licence to prevent crime and disorder, and for public safety.

There was also evidence of underage drinking and drug use at the upstairs club on Leckwith Road, said Supt Jones's report to councillors.

Incidents going back to 2012 included pool cues and balls being used in a disturbance with a man knocked unconscious, and a group of football fans outside being attacked by a group from inside the club.

Drug dealing was twice caught on CCTV inside the club, according to police.

Council pollution control officers also said there had been "continued complaints" about noise from residents despite a change in management.

The council's licensing sub-committee also received a petition from neighbours and letters of objection.

They included complaints of rowdy behaviour and drunkenness and claims residents in adjoining Church Road were unable to sit out in their gardens because of the noise.

One described "numerous problems with the club in recent years," while another added it was "long overdue that significant action is taken".

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Sad to see. I've always enjoyed a matchday drink in there.

Sad to see. I've always enjoyed a matchday drink in there.

Never been in there to be honest.

The Cornwall was always the place I went in the early part of 2000's before making the Ninian the regular meeting place in the past 5 years but now a meal and a pint in the Sand Martin is the order of the day

The Gestapo at it again I see. Here we are allowed flares, smoke bombs and loads of alcohol no problem. The UK is a nanny state.

Thats Bluebirds unite meeting place and our leader Sians main place of drinking, where we going to go now?

This is what happens when knobheads gather together, twice I've had to stop my bus outside the place to avoid running over people fighting in the middle of the road, who'd want to live within proximity of that place?

The Gestapo at it again I see. Here we are allowed flares, smoke bombs and loads of alcohol no problem. The UK is a nanny state.

Because Fighting and Drug Dealing are a vital part of serving alchohol?

Grow up

The Gestapo at it again I see. Here we are allowed flares, smoke bombs and loads of alcohol no problem. The UK is a nanny state.

Don't be pathetic.

Used to be able to get a decent game of pool back when Rhys ran it as potters bar. Me and my mate went in there a few months back. Didn't stay long. Had a very strong feeling that we might have run into some trouble! So not being the fighting type, we got the f**k out of there sharpish!

Oh I didn't realize fighting and drug dealing were part of serving alcohol strange .
In there if a cats got a tail its a stranger