Hobart City Council approves plan for Salamanca’s Cargo bar to operate around the clock

Residents have raised concerns at a bar’s application to open 24 hours a day, every day, with one councillor saying the plan opened his eyes to “another world I wasn’t aware of”.

Salamanca’s Cargo Bar can now open all day after the Hobart City Council approved its application for extended trading hours. Picture: MATT THOMPSON

ONE of Hobart’s most popular bars can now operate around the clock, seven days a week after having been granted Hobart City Council approved for the extended hours.

Cargo Bar Pizza Lounge in Salamanca can stay open permanently despite concerns from nearby businesses that the extended hours will increase noise and anti-social behaviour from patrons.

Cargo presently operates from 8am to 4am Monday to Saturday and from 8am to 1am on Sundays.

Hobart Deputy Lord Mayor Helen Burnet said she did not support the application at a council meeting — a sentiment supported by Cr Mike Dutta.

“Looking at the report and the concerns raised by the residents I think the noise factor must be taken into account,” Cr Dutta said.

Nine submissions were made against extending the trading hours.

Ald Jeff Briscoe supported the request, arguing the proponents were good managers who tried to create a safe environment.

There was no evidence to suggest noise complaints were created by Cargo Bar patrons, he said, although he was surprised revellers kicked on so deep into the night.

“There is another world I wasn’t aware of that people do inhabit these places in the early hours of the morning when they should all be in bed sleeping,” he said.

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The applicant, Joseph Zucco, also was granted a two-hour extension for neighbouring bar Jack Greene to make its trading hours 10am-4am, seven days a week.

Ald Simon Behrakis did not vote because of a conflict of interest.

Ald Marti Zucco, voted in the Cargo Bar decision before realising he too had a conflict and did not vote in the Jack Greene decision.

The Cargo Bar stood because even minus Ald Zucco’s vote it would have passed.