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A decision to open another late-night off-licence in Bearwood has been approved.

Sandwell Council’s licensing committee approved a plan for the new Continental Market shop in Bearwood Road, Bearwood, Smethwick to sell alcohol.

The hearing was held following a number of complaints from neighbours who said another new late-night shop was turning Bearwood’s high street into a ‘health and safety risk.’

A decision was due to be made in September but the meeting was adjourned over a “discrepancy” with the shop’s layout and the licensing committee granted applicant Ali Ashorbig’s request to push back a decision so he could provide the council with the correct documents.

The application was approved at a hearing on Tuesday (November 25).

One objector said smashed glass bottles,

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