Hanwell News at 116 Uxbridge Road wants to sell alcohol from 8am to 11pm every day. Residents can comment to Ealing Council until Tuesday 24 November.

Hanwell News, the shop at 116 Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, W7 3SU, has applied to Ealing Council for a licence to sell alcohol from 8am to 11pm every day. Residents have until Tuesday 24 November to comment.

What has been applied for

The public notice, published on 4 November, asks for a new premises licence to sell alcohol for drinking off the premises only. The hours are the same every day: 8am to 11pm.

The council’s list of current licensing applications shows:

  • reference 26LIC14501PREM
  • received on Tuesday 27 October
  • status: pending
  • ward: Hanwell Broadway
  • open for representations until 24 November

The applicant is a private individual. Neither the notice nor the council’s list says whether the shop already trades or what the unit was used for before.

Why the location matters

The address sits inside the Hanwell and Ealing special policy area. The council’s Statement of Licensing Policy 2025 to 2030 maps that area along the Uxbridge Road from Hanwell Bridge to Ealing Broadway.

Inside it, the policy says, new alcohol licences that would add to the existing problems “will normally be refused or subject to certain limitations” if relevant objections are made. The applicant has to show the shop is “unlikely to add significantly to the cumulative impact”. If nobody objects, the council must grant the licence as applied for.

For off-licences, those limitations can include:

  • limits on selling single cans or bottles
  • limits on miniatures
  • limits on some high-strength drinks
  • no alcohol sales before a set time of day

The council’s 2025 cumulative impact assessment counted 11 off-licences in the old Hanwell special policy area, which covered 0.08 square kilometres.

The policy’s core hours for off-licence sales start at 8am from Monday to Thursday, 10am on Fridays and Saturdays, and 11am on Sundays. Applications outside them are “more likely to attract representations”.

What it means for you

Anyone can support or object by writing to the council by Tuesday 24 November 2026. Email licensing@ealing.gov.uk or write to Licensing, Perceval House, 14-16 Uxbridge Road, Ealing W5 2HL. Give your grounds in detail and quote 26LIC14501PREM.

Comments must relate to at least one of the four licensing objectives:

  • preventing crime and disorder
  • public safety
  • preventing public nuisance
  • protecting children from harm

The council does not accept anonymous representations. Any it receives go into the report to the licensing sub-committee and become public.