By Jack Thomson

A NIGHTCLUB in Clydebank is looking to extend its hours of trading – which would allow it to sell alcohol until 4am at the weekend.

Club Mango, of 68 Dumbarton Road, has lodged an application with the licensing board requesting a change in the time it can sell alcohol until on Friday and Saturday.

If the application is accepted, the terminal hour for the sale of alcohol for consumption on the premises on those days would be amended from 3am to 4am the following day.

The venue would maintain its normal opening hours throughout the week, seeing it trade until 1am from Monday to Wednesday and 3am on Thursday and Sunday.

In addition to extending trading hours, the club is hoping to host an under-18s disco, developed in partnership with Strathclyde Police and Community Safety Partnership.

The applicant has reassured alcohol will not be available for sale while such a function is in operation.

It was also stated those attending an under-18s event would not be allowed in areas where alcohol is purchased, or where gaming machines are situated.

However, during the festive period, the applicant – Naseem Akram, of Gleddoch View, Dumbarton – will look to extend opening hours until 3am from Sunday to Wednesday.

For Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Hogmanay and New Year’s Day, a terminal hour of 4am will be sought.

During the same period – from December 17 to January 2 – Club Mango will aim to sell alcohol until 4am from Thursday to Saturday.

Objections to the application have been issued by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board and Police Scotland but the contents have been deemed “confidential” and have not been publicised in the committee report.

Meanwhile, changes to the running of Clydebank Filling Station are set to take place with it extending into the site of the former Boundary Bar on Glasgow Road.

A refurbishment of the premises will see a convenience store within the petrol filling station.

An application from the filling station has proposed various changes to the operating plan contained within the licence, such as allowing off licence alcohol sale.

If the application is accepted, alcohol would be sold for use off the premises between 10am and 10pm, from Monday to Sunday.

The application has also proposed removing restaurant, bar meals, televised sport and outdoor drinking from the licence, which had been available when the premises was a bar.

The outcome of both applications was set to be decided as the Post went to press.