Midweek Mango's Mayhem

In spite of the imminent hearing to decide the future of their alcohol license, Mango's has chosen to add to the disturbance suffered by local residents by opening a fortnightly student's night.

Here is one resident's view:

"Last night (Wednesday 29th September) was the opening night for a fortnightly student event at Mangos (http://www.mangos-london.com/) and I was woken at 2:00 with hundreds of drunk students flooding out of the nightclub blowing whistles, shouting, fighting and beeping car horns. This noise persisted until 3:00 meaning that I did not get a good nights sleep. No individual from the nightclub was present on the street. The next morning Artichoke Hill and Pennington Street was covered in alcohol bottles, fast food wrappers and sick."

As we move ever closer to Christmas the chances are that increasing numbers of residents will suffer disturbance caused by rowdy, drunken groups of youths leaving Mango's intent on anti-social behaviour.


As residents, our best possible chance of ending this nuisance will be at the Magistrates Court on 19 January 2010. We need to continue to collect evidence in support of our case. Mango's will no doubt assume that we will eventually get tired. We will not. We will eventually win.



If you suffer any late night noise, whether on Wednesdays or at the weekends, please leave a comment here.

Progress Report

A local resident left this comment:

"The last 2 weekends have been ridiculously busy and I've had cars parked right outside my house on both sides of the street. So much for the parking attendants, who seem to be there to observe the mayhem. I've been woken up at 4.30 in the morning by fights, screaming and cars beeping and revving. There is also the usual gangs of people hanging around on the corner of Artichoke Hill who stand about shouting after leaving the club. They never seem to be asked to leave by the "attendant" stood metres away. On the plus side, my sleep has been so badly affected I am able to get up at 4 in the morning and take lots of nice video footage of all this. I am expecting the next bank holiday to be horrific as always so I'm sure I will be forced to wake up and capture more of the same."

It seems clear that there have been no changes for the better over the past year.

To ensure that Mango's appeal fails we need to gather as much evidence as possible so please keep the comments coming.

Summer Bank Holiday - 31 August

The summer Bank Holiday will fall on the 31 August. Experience suggests that this will be a big weekend at Mango's. Residents should be aware that until we win the appeal Mango's will not be closed. If you are disturbed over the Bank Holiday weekend - or at any other time for that matter - please leave a comment on the blog.

Can this be legal?

A recent comment:

'Saturday night/Sunday Morning June 28. midnight to 5.00am. I was woken several times by shouting, by persons going to or leaving Mango's. I have to leave for work at 5.15am. I feel this is very unfair. I have also noticed flyers offering free admission and a 5,00am license. Can this be legal? '

Bank Holiday Weekend

A number of recent comments underline the fact that for residents the Mango's problem continues. We all know what the symptoms are. Equally, we are all aware of the treatment required, or, as a recent contributor put it, 'I hope this place gets shut dowon soon'.

Please continue to leave a comment. It could ensure that we get the right result at appeal.

'Entirely revoke the licence'

Following the Licensing hearing on the 28th April the council sent out this letter to those who attended.

Mango's to appeal

It should come as no surprise that Mango's will appeal the council's decision to revoke their licence. On page 13 of Docklands 24 of Wednesday 6 May, 2009 there is an article under the headline, 'Owners to fight revoked licence'.

In the article Mr Sharma makes a number of statements. He states for example that 'For the sake of 10-15 neighbours they are taking my licence away.' At the time of writing there are nearly 1000 hits on this blog. Are we to attribute this traffice to '10-15' neighbours?

Signatures from 65 neighbours were submitted to the council.

Mr Sharma goes on to state, 'I can't see the justice - we're in a small commercial area which is not residential.'

If the area is not residential how are we to explain the 65 signatures? These signatures included many from Breezers Court and Telford's Yard as well as Artichoke Hill. The presence of The Times and a garage does not make our area into an industrial estate.

Over the coming weeks it is imperative that we continue to gather evidence of the problem. The council may well have found our case compelling but we are close to a solution now and must bring all efforts to bear to ensure that the appeal is not upheld.