Mike Levitt spent years operating on temporary event permits for his nightclub Ormside Projects in an industrial area of Bermondsey, south London, before he was finally granted a licence by Southwark council in 2019.
The only issue was that his license stated music had to be turned off by 11.30pm on Fridays and Saturdays — a tough ask for a dance club.
It took three more years and a complicated appeal process to receive permission to stay open until 6.30am. “As a late-night venue, it feels as if you have to prove you’re culturally important to justify a licence,” Levitt said. “A lot of other places would have given up.”
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