The Public Health team want to close and move Fore Street Rank!
The reasons Public Health gave for their request is as follows:-
“This is a single carriageway one way road, with queues and crowds waiting to go into the nightclub, drinking outside the pub, eating and going to and from fast food outlets, and getting off or waiting for taxis.
After hours at the weekend it’s the single location in Cornwall with the largest incidence of assaults and A&E presentations.
Sailors have redesigned their entrance, doubled up on ticket machines, moved the queue further inside, created a smoking area at the back, gone to all plastic/no glass, and removed bar furniture from the front of their premises.
We still have problems, and I feel that we really need to move the taxi queues elsewhere, so that groups of alcohol fuelled individuals don’t get drawn together to the same place at the end of the evening.
My suggestions would be to end its use after 11PM, and to have a second taxi waiting area either on the Sainsbury’s Carpark (while it’s closed) or round by the bus bays.”
This is a very serious issue and we need your comments now!