Residents living close to a Beckenham restaurant have called it a “powerful magnet that draws in undesirable characters” and claim its loud music regularly keeps them awake on weekends. However, the restaurant director “feels as if she’s got a target on her back” following repeated council and police investigations into her business.

Bromley Council’s Licensing Sub-Committee heard an application from Pierluigi’s Pasta Fresca at 86-90 Beckenham High Street for a new premises licence on August 12. Pierluigi’s, a family-run Italian restaurant directed by Sofia Figuera Martin, applied to extend its opening hours and play recorded music in May.

This application was prompted by the council’s public health nuisance team request for a review of the restaurant's current premises licence in M

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