Whanganui District Council's local alcohol policy will be fully in effect from December 2. Photo / File
Some of Whanganui's licensed premises are about to lose their revolving doors - for one hour before their closing time anyway.
Whanganui District Council's "one-way door" condition and new maximum trading hours for licensed premises, part of the local alcohol policy, will come into force on Monday, December 2.
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clauses of the policy have been in operation since September but two clauses were delayed for three months so the council could talk to licensees.
The "one-way door" restriction applies only to on-licences that close after midnight and means no-one will be admitted - or readmitted, in the case of patrons who go out of the premises - in the hour before the premises closes. The exception is for anyone who is intoxicated and needs to be somewhere safe.
The policy also sets out maximum trading hours, which will be 8am to 2am the following day for on-licence taverns, bars, pubs and nightclubs; 8am to midnight for clubs and on-licence restaurants; 7am to 10pm for off-licence grocery stores, supermarkets and bottle stores; and 7am to 9.30pm for off-licence hotels, bars, taverns and cellar doors.
