{"id":60422,"date":"2026-04-27T14:32:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=60422"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:34:44","slug":"worries-over-6am-sales-of-alcohol-after-tescos-licensing-plan-is-approved-by-sheffield-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/worries-over-6am-sales-of-alcohol-after-tescos-licensing-plan-is-approved-by-sheffield-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Worries over 6am sales of alcohol after Tesco licensing plan is approved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new city centre branch of Tesco will be able to serve alcohol for up to 18 hours a day even though public health experts are opposed to it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new Tesco is set to open during the development of Sheffield’s Velocity Village and will take over the unit which has the fitness gym \u2018Anytime Fitness\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a licensing sub-committee meeting, Sheffield Public Health, Sheffield Safeguarding Partnership and Councillor Ruth Mersereau, who is the Green Party councillor for City ward, opposed the licensing plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After it is built, Tesco will be allowed to sell alcohol off premises from 6am until midnight, seven days a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One issue is that it would be near \u2018Likewise\u2019 and \u2018Cathedral Archer Project\u2019, support services for substance\/alcohol misuse and vulnerable issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another issue is it will be close to student accommodations such as True Student and Hollis Croft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the meeting, students were referred to as \u2018young people\u2019 and Sheffield Children\u2019s Safeguarding Partnership acknowledged they should be protected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maureen Hennessy, licensing officer for Sheffield Children’s Safeguarding Partnership, said: \u201cIn Sheffield\u2019s City Centre, we have cohorts of vulnerable street drinkers. More exposure to alcohol wouldn\u2019t be sensible and restricting it would lead to safeguarding those people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Jeremy Bark, a solicitor for Tesco, emphasised the strict controls that Tesco has in refusing alcohol sales to young people, or if staff have safeguarding concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ShefLive interviewed students for their opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lily Rycroft, 19, Student at the University of Sheffield, said: \u201cI think it wouldn\u2019t really change students’ behaviour because not that many students are getting up to buy alcohol.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Clinton, 20, Student at the University of Sheffield, said: \u201dI feel like the morning wouldn\u2019t affect as many people. No one\u2019s buying alcohol that early in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt seems at most a bit inconvenient and it\u2019d probably keep people safer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Temi Adelayi, 18, Student at the University of Sheffield, said: \u201cEncouraging alcoholic behaviour from 6am might be a bit detrimental but university students are university students and will find a way around it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the Tenter Street development, the council wants to extend the city’s centre business area by improving pedestrian crossings and creating more pleasant streetscapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exact opening date of the Tesco has not been finalised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new branch is due to open on Tenter Street in the Velocity Village development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":60424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[636,152,8,5,4],"tags":[135,846,1233,116,1235,12,55,126,1234,213],"class_list":["post-60422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-council-2","category-health","category-news","category-top-story","tag-sheffieldnews","tag-alcohol","tag-citycentre-2","tag-council","tag-sales","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-city-council","tag-students","tag-tesco","tag-university-of-sheffield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60422"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60481,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60422\/revisions\/60481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}