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Camden News - by PAUL KEILTHY
Published: 15 January 2009

Objectors’ victory as cabaret venue forced to close at midnight

ITS drums will transport diners “to the Heart of Shaka Zulu”, and its floor show will “rival Las Vegas”, according the backers of a new venue planned for Camden Town – but only until midnight, after residents groups claimed a Town Hall victory on Monday.
An application for a 10am to 3am licence for new 700-seater Shaka Zulu cabaret restaurant in Stables Market was toned down after residents lobbied councillors on the decision-making panel.
Hartland Road resident Vijay Singh said Camden Town residents had seen licence after licence granted in the strip around Camden High Street and Chalk Farm Road despite their protests.
He said after the meeting: “We had resigned ourselves to yet another venue and more people in our streets in the early hours. This amounts to a victory.”
Three residents’ associations lobbied the decision panel, and Camden police’s licensing chief Sergeant Robert Dear also wrote warning that a 3am licence would “seriously exacerbate the problems” of the borough’s “highest levels of alcohol-related anti-social behaviour, street drinking and drug use”.
Licencing panel chair
Cllr Pat Callaghan said: “Residents in that area are totally sick of having people walking along the road throwing up. Shaka Zulu is in a way a victim of other venues who do not make sure their patrons leave their establishments quietly – we decided to make a stand.”
Shaka Zulu’s PR spokeswoman said on Monday that the decision was a “great result”.

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