City of Newcastle engaged JSA to provide an independent, peer review of a Social Impact Assessment for a proposal to modify and extend trading hours of a licenced premises in the Newcastle CBD. The review identified four potential areas of social impact associated with the proposal including impacts associated with alcohol, impacts associated with gaming, impacts on the night time economy and impacts to amenity in the locality. The review also provided its own detailed analysis of socio-economic characteristics of the locality, alcohol-related harm and gaming-related harm literature, and the relationship between alcohol-related violence and operation of licenced premises in the Newcastle CBD which has been the subject of intense scrutiny, novel approaches and evaluation of imposed mitigations for over 15 years.
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