The 292 High Street application has dropped 5am closing. It now asks for 1am Sunday to Thursday and 2am on Friday and Saturday. Comments still close on 16 September.

The bid to keep a Sutton High Street restaurant open until 5am has been cut back to 1am on most nights.

Sutton Council’s current applications page now lists the application for 292 High Street, SM1 1PQ, trading as Shah’s Halal Food, as a “New Premises Licence Application - Amended”. The council published a fresh redacted application form on 28 August. The deadline for comments is unchanged at 16 September 2026.

We reported the original application on 22 August, when it asked for late night refreshment and public opening until 5am every day of the week. The amended form asks for considerably less.

What changed

The hours sought for both late night refreshment and public opening are now identical on each day, and both stop at 1am or 2am rather than 5am.

Day Original bid Amended bid
Monday 11am to 5am 11am to 1am
Tuesday 11am to 5am 11am to 1am
Wednesday 11am to 5am 11am to 1am
Thursday 11am to 5am 11am to 1am
Friday 11am to 5am 11am to 2am
Saturday 11am to 5am 11am to 2am
Sunday 11am to 5am 11am to 1am

Late night refreshment, the licensable activity of selling hot food or drink between 11pm and 5am, would run from 11pm to the same closing time on each of those days.

Chart comparing the original and amended licence hours at 292 High Street, Sutton: the original bid sought 11am to 5am every day, the amended bid seeks 11am to 1am Sunday to Thursday and 11am to 2am on Friday and Saturday

Measured against the original bid, that is four hours less from Sunday to Thursday and three hours less on Friday and Saturday. The restaurant’s current trading hours, which the form gives as 11am to 11pm every day including bank holidays, would still be extended by two hours from Sunday to Thursday and three hours at the weekend.

What has not changed

Most of the application is the same document with new numbers in the hours boxes:

  • the applicant is still WOHZ Ltd, company 16879392, incorporated on 28 November 2025
  • there is still no request to sell alcohol, and the form answers “no” to plays, films, indoor sport, boxing or wrestling, live music, recorded music and dance
  • the late night refreshment would still be provided both indoors and outdoors
  • the licence is still sought from 30 September 2026, with no end date
  • the premises still carries a non-domestic rateable value of £35,000
  • the offered conditions are unchanged: CCTV inside and outside recording 24 hours, an incident log available to police or the council, a zero-tolerance policy on anti-social behaviour, lighting maintained inside and outside, signage asking customers to leave quietly, a designated waste storage area, and no unaccompanied children after 10pm

In the applicant’s own words, the premises “will be used for serving mainly food to be eaten on the premises but with limited takeaway and non-alcoholic beverages. No alcohol will be served, and there will be no music.” A later section describes it as “a family-friendly establishment focused solely on serving food for eating at the premises with a limited takeaway service and non-alcoholic beverages”.

Shah’s Halal Food Sutton is listed on the food hygiene register as a restaurant, cafe or canteen and is awaiting its first inspection.

What it means for you

  • The clock has not been reset. Comments still close on 16 September 2026. After that the council removes the application from its website and it is decided.
  • The amendment does not end the process. If anyone makes a valid representation, the application goes to the Licensing Committee for a hearing and everyone who commented is invited.
  • Comments have to be relevant. Under the Licensing Act 2003 a representation must relate to one of the four objectives: the prevention of crime and disorder, public safety, the prevention of public nuisance, or the protection of children from harm. Noise at 1am, litter and late-night disturbance sit inside those objectives. Disliking the type of business does not.
  • Your comment goes to the applicant in full. The council says the Act requires it.
  • Applications vanish from the council’s page once the deadline passes. If you want to read the form, do it before 16 September.

Two other Sutton licence applications are live on the same page: Cheam Sports Club on Peaches Close, whose representation deadline passed on 28 August, and a new premises licence for The Ceylone Dining at 6 St Dunstans Hill, Cheam SM1 2UE, where comments close on 21 September. We will report the outcomes.

We will also update this story when the council decides the 292 High Street application. Planning and licensing decisions across the borough are tracked on our Sutton planning applications page.

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