Clause 12 - Power to impose charges on
Violent Crime Reduction Bill
6:15 pm
Lynne Featherstone (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Hornsey and Wood Green, Liberal Democrat)
The clause refers to alcohol disorder zones and the amendment specifically deals with areas that cross local authority boundaries. There is an example in my constituency, where I live. Highgate high street is divided between Haringey and Camden, with Islington a stone's throw from the bottom of Highgate village. There are five pubs within a distance of about 100 m. Therefore, although Highgate is not the sort of area that one might consider would become the subject of an alcohol disorder zone—