Dyfed-Powys Police are objecting to an application for a late-night takeaway on Haverfordwest’s Quay Street.

The proposal is set to be discussed at a meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council’s licensing sub-committee today Monday. (March 23).

The authority’s licensing compliance team north has also recommended the plan be refused.

Applicant Harry Heywood hopes to sell hot food from 1 Quay Street – the empty Chicken Pizza Express building – from 11pm to 12.30am on Mondays and Tuesdays, from 11pm to 4.30am on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays and from 11pm to 3am on Thursdays and Sundays.

The Police force is Police are concerned the narrow pavement outside the premises would be unable to safely accommodate queues of customers who could be “heavily intoxicated”, putting them at risk from traffic turning in to Quay Street.

It also claims the hours applied for are “excessive” and would have an “extremely detrimental” impact on Haverfordwest, causing people to hang around the town centre for longer than they normally would.

The compliance team north has similar worries about the application, and in a report to the sub-committee states: “This is the wrong location for a premises of this type and there is very little that can be done to prevent incidents of crime, nuisance and disorder being generated by it.”