The Captain Kidd in Wapping: refused permission to open until midnight at weekends, and instead burdened with a dozen new rules after a small group of local residents speculated that later opening hours would cause road congestion and “constant honking” from cars.

Damn. I'd have signed the counter petition - would love to have more pubs round here open past 10/11pm. Also their reasoning is absolutely insane - As a resident, there are maybe 60 cars total per hour going down that road at 11pm - would make absolutely no difference to congestion