A York takeaway’s plan to sell alcohol has been opposed by City of York Council’s public health director.
The Slice of Heaven pizza takeaway on Burton Stone Lane has applied for an alcohol licence.
It wants to sell alcohol with its food between 11am and 1am every day and to deliver alcohol to customers between 11pm and 1am daily.
Police have no objections to the plan after the owner, Taylan Ozer, agreed to its licence conditions, including
- installing a colour digital CCTV system
- keeping an incident / refusals log
- undertaking a documented staff training programme.
But the council’s public health director has objected to the plan.
By selling alcohol, Slice Of Heaven would undermine licensing policy aims to prevent crime, disorder and public nuisance and to protect children.
“Burton Stone Lane is a densely populated residential area situated outside the city centre. It features a diverse demographic, including young families and vulnerable adults,” the public health director writes in council documents.
“Introducing extended alcohol sale and late-night home delivery into this neighbourhood creates risks to the local population which have not been acknowledged by the applicant.
“Alcohol already harms the local population in this area of the city.
“Between 2016/17 and 2020/21, there were 245 hospital admissions for alcohol attributable conditions (primary diagnosis is related to alcohol) in Clifton North MSOA, an admission rate 40% higher than the national average (York as a whole is 7% higher).”
The report says alcohol is estimated to be a factor in a third of all domestic violence cases.
“In York this equates to 511 police reported incidents of domestic abuse involving physical violence city wide and 39 incidents in the Clifton ward between April 2025 and March 2026.
“Given roughly only a third of domestic abuse incidents are reported to police, this suggests figures could be closer to 1703 across the city and 130 incidents in the Clifton ward during the same period.”
And granting the licence could add public nuisance, the health director says. “Takeaways selling alcohol can become meeting points when they are one of few places selling alcohol later in the night. Again, this can cause increased noise and disruption to residents.”
Councillors will consider the licence application at a hearing next Tuesday, 14 July.
