THE CAMPAIGN TO SAVE artsy Dalston venue The Jago has moved up a level. Hackney Mayor Philip Glanville met Jago co-owner Kwamé Otiende on line yesterday, and a petition is close to winning its signatures target.

Asked about the meeting, the Mayor told Loving Dalston: “We want to continue to support the Jago and other live music venues in Dalston and beyond, but we also have a statutory duty to investigate and act on noise complaints.”

The hope is that such fence-sitting on an arts-and-culture hub the council has already registered as an asset of community value is a holding action. Glanville is arranging an onsite meeting early next month September 2022 with the council’s licensing team, night-time economy manager and Councillor Susan Fajana-Thomas to discuss an order for further noise reduction which, if carried out, would result in “no further action” being taken.

Late-night clubs and bars often come under threat from complaints about noise from residents bothered by late-night noise. A handful of them is objecting to the Compton Arms at Islington N1 2XD, which George “1984” Orwell called the perfect pub, and the licence of the Haggerston at the corner of Richmond and Kingsland roads, Hackney, 80m west of The Jago, has been changed to earlier closing times.

Now the former Passing Clouds is the focus of what Jago supporters term “a minority” of noise complainants. A petition to “protect the late-night licences of The Jago and other grassroots venues against rising noise complaints” is nearing its modest aim of 2,500 signatures.

David Altheer 270822

* The Jago, postally 440 Kingsland Road, Dalston E8 4AA; actually 50m away in Richmond Road, towards the railway

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