Superb Pizza, 6 Broadway, Hanwell, asked to serve hot food 11pm to 5am. Ealing's licensing panel allowed midnight, or 1am at weekends, with noise conditions.
A takeaway on Hanwell Broadway that asked to sell hot food until 5am every night has been licensed to midnight instead, or 1am at weekends. Ealing Council’s Licensing Sub-Committee granted Superb Pizza, 6 Broadway, Hanwell, W7 3SS, a premises licence on Wednesday 4 November with three extra conditions on noise.
Updated 13 November: the council’s written decision, dated 11 November, is now published and confirms the hours and conditions below.
What was asked for and what was granted
The application was for late night refreshment, indoors and outdoors, from 11pm to 5am seven days a week, according to the council’s hearing report. Late night refreshment is the licence a takeaway needs to sell hot food or drink after 11pm.
| Late night hot food | |
|---|---|
| Applied for | 11pm to 5am, every night |
| Agreed with the police on 22 September | 11pm to midnight Sunday to Thursday; 11pm to 1am Friday, Saturday and bank holiday Sundays |
| Granted on 4 November | The same as the police-agreed hours |
The Metropolitan Police did not object. It agreed ten conditions with the applicant, mostly on CCTV, which must record the outside of the shop and the delivery vehicles collecting orders. Another condition bars delivery riders and drivers from leaving engines running while they wait.
Four residents objected. Their representations, published in the report, centred on noise from customers and delivery riders through the night and the effect on sleep.
The extra conditions
The committee added three conditions of its own, read out in its decision on the council’s webcast:
- Before any late night trading starts, a written noise management and dispersal policy. It must cover customers and riders waiting on the frontage, stepping in when people are noisy, order cut-off times and quiet closing. Every member of staff working after 11pm must be trained in it, with training records kept for 12 months.
- Notices at the exit and collection point asking customers and riders to leave quietly and not to play music, rev engines or sound horns.
- No tables or chairs on the pavement without a council pavement licence.
The committee said it had “expressly considered” the shop’s position inside Hanwell’s special policy area, one of the zones the council’s licensing policy marks out for extra scrutiny, and the potential for the shop to add to existing noise and disorder there. It said it did not take the lack of objections from the council’s own officers as proof that no complaints had been made, “particularly given residents’ accounts of previous complaints and disturbance”.
It concluded that the shorter hours and the conditions together were “an appropriate and proportionate basis” for granting the licence.
The written decision
The council published its notice of decision, dated 11 November. It confirms the hours, the ten police conditions and the three extra ones. The licence covers late night hot food only: no alcohol and no regulated entertainment.
The notice says the committee gave “particular weight” to homes above and next to the shop. Residents had described customers’ music, delivery-vehicle noise, activity at the rear door, late waste disposal, cooking smells and noise from the oven and extraction motor. The committee said CCTV “does not, by itself, prevent noise or protect sleep”, so it relied on the shorter hours and the noise management rules instead.
The applicant, and anyone who made a representation, can appeal to Ealing Magistrates’ Court within 21 days of being told the decision.
What it means for you
- If you live near Hanwell Broadway: hot food sales from 6 Broadway must stop at midnight on Sunday to Thursday nights and 1am on Friday, Saturday and bank holiday Sunday nights.
- If the conditions are broken, for example engines left running or noisy queues, you can report it to the council’s licensing team at licensing@ealing.gov.uk. Any resident can also ask the council to review a premises licence.
- The council’s next Licensing Sub-Committee sits on 18 November. Meeting papers are on the council’s committee site.
For the rest of the borough’s licensing and planning news, see our planning news page.
Sources
- Ealing Council, Licensing Sub-Committee hearing report: Superb Pizza, 6 Broadway, Hanwell, 4 November 2026.
- Ealing Council, Licensing Sub-Committee decision, Superb Pizza, webcast, 4 November 2026.
- Ealing Council, Notice of decision, Superb Pizza, 6 Broadway, Hanwell, 11 November 2026.
- Ealing Council, Licensing Sub-Committee meeting, 4 November 2026.
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