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Dec 2021

Last Updated: 02/12/2021

Business

Viper Rooms bids to extend weekend opening hours until 6.30am

by Thomas Barrett

| 02 Dec, 2021

Owner Paul Kinsey tells the Stray Ferret the nightclub is still busy at 4am, so closing later would stop revellers leaving the club at once. He also says there is a demand from customers to stay out later.

Viper Rooms, Parliament Street in Harrogate.

The Viper Rooms nightclub on Parliament Street has applied to Harrogate Borough Council to extend its opening hours on Friday and Saturday nights until 6.30am.

Harrogate's only nightclub reopened in July after being closed due to covid restrictions since March last year, except for one night on Halloween last year.

It currently serves alcohol until 4am and closes at 4.30am. The application seeks to extend both by two hours.

Owner Paul Kinsey told the Stray Ferret the nightclub is still busy at 4am, so closing later would stop revellers leaving the club all at once. He added there was also a demand from customers to stay out later.

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Mr Kinsey said:

"Since reopening we have monitored customer trends closely and we have seen that we are still very busy at 4am.

"Therefore to have a more orderly dispersal of customers and not move several hundred people onto the streets at one time. It's more sensible to trade later and allow a staggered dispersal of customers as well as catering for customer demand for a later finish to their night.

"We have trialled the later closing hours in recent weeks and it has gone without any issues at all.

"It's not our intention to trade every night until 6am. it's just having the permission to do so if needed."

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