Home Office Asks H&F to Revoke Pizza Shop Licence

The Home Office has asked Hammersmith and Fulham Council to strip a late-night pizza shop on Fulham Palace Road of its licence, after a £40,000 penalty went unpaid.

The application concerns Ringo Pizza at 40 Fulham Palace Road, W6 9PH. It goes before the council’s Licensing Sub-Committee at 6.30pm on Wednesday 9 September, and the papers are published in full on the council’s democracy website.

Why the review was brought

Immigration Enforcement served the review application on 21 July 2026, under section 51 of the Licensing Act 2003. It was brought on one of the four licensing grounds, the prevention of crime and disorder.

According to the council’s report, the sequence was this:

• On 18 September 2025, Immigration Enforcement visited the premises and found an employee working without the right to work in the United Kingdom.
• The review application says correct right to work checks had not been carried out.
• The case went to the Home Office’s Civil Penalty Compliance Team, which issued a £40,000 civil penalty to Moezali Ltd for employing one person with no right to work.
• That penalty “remains outstanding in full”, the report states.

Immigration Enforcement is asking the sub-committee to revoke the licence outright, citing what the report calls the serious nature of the incident and the non-compliance with the civil penalty.

Two points in the report cut the other way. No representations were received in support of the review. And on 22 July the council’s own Noise and Nuisance team wrote to say it would not be supporting it. The report also records no enforcement history at the premises in the past three years, and no temporary event notices in the past twelve months.

The licence changed hands while the review was live. A transfer to a new holder was granted on 21 August 2026, a month after the application was served. The report notes the updated licence had not yet been issued when it was written.

What the shop is currently licensed to do

The premises has held a licence since 23 September 2010. It currently permits:

• late night refreshment indoors, 23:00 to 02:00, seven days a week
• late night refreshment outdoors, 23:00 to 04:00 Sunday to Thursday, and 23:00 to 05:00 on Friday and Saturday
• off-sales of alcohol, 08:00 to 02:00, seven days a week

The report also flags an error in the paperwork. The licence on file shows the wrong opening hours because of an administrative mistake in a decision letter issued in November 2022. The correct hours are 08:00 to 04:00 Sunday to Thursday and 08:00 to 05:00 on Friday and Saturday.

For context, the council’s own Statement of Licensing Policy suggests takeaway premises in mixed-use areas should close at 00:30 on Friday and Saturday. That is a guide for operators rather than a rule, and this licence predates it.

What the committee can do

A licensing sub-committee hearing a review has six options open to it. It may:

• modify the conditions on the licence
• exclude a licensable activity from the licence
• remove the designated premises supervisor
• suspend the licence for up to three months
• revoke the licence
• take no further action

Seven objections to a dessert shop on Wandsworth Bridge Road

The same sub-committee will then hear a second, unrelated case at 7.45pm or after the first item finishes.

Nedwin Ltd has applied for a new premises licence for Dr Dessert at 174 Wandsworth Bridge Road, SW6 2UQ. The premises intends to trade as a restaurant and takeaway. The application was received on 23 June 2026 and asks for:

• late night refreshment outdoors until 00:30, Sunday to Thursday
• late night refreshment outdoors until 01:30 on Friday and Saturday
• the premises open to the public from 08:00 to 23:00 every day

Seven representations were received, all objecting. The council’s report lists them as:

• one on behalf of the Chair of the Walham Green Ward Panel
• one on behalf of the Barclay Road Conservation Area Neighbourhood Watch
• five from local residents

Most of the objections centre on the late-night delivery trade. The applicant has already agreed 14 extra conditions in response.

Eight were agreed with the council’s Noise and Nuisance team on 15 July. They include:

• a written delivery management policy favouring bicycles and electric bicycles
• drivers instructed to arrive only once an order is ready for collection
• at least two staff on site during the late-night delivery period
• staff monitoring the pavement outside, and asking any driver causing a disturbance to leave
• litter patrols outside the premises at least three times a day, with a written record kept for 31 days
• signage at the entrance asking drivers and customers to keep noise down

Six more were agreed with the Police Licensing Team the same day. The three that change how the shop trades are:

• closed to walk-in customers at 23:00 each day
• delivery orders only after 23:00, placed by telephone or online
• a designated short-stay collection point for drivers

The council told the objectors about those agreed conditions on 25 August. There has been no enforcement history at the premises in the past three years.

What it means for you

If you live near either premises, the decisions are made on Wednesday evening and they are public. The meeting is being held online and is streamed on YouTube.

The consultation windows for both cases have already closed, so this is not a point at which new objections can be lodged. What you can do is watch, and then check the outcome: decisions are published on the council’s democracy site after the hearing, and any conditions imposed become enforceable terms of the licence.

For the Fulham Palace Road case, note what is and is not at stake. The review is about right to work checks and an unpaid penalty, not about noise or disorder, and the council’s own nuisance team is not backing it. Revocation is the outcome the Home Office has asked for, but it is one of six the committee can reach.

Both premises named here are entitled to put their case at the hearing. Nothing in the council’s reports is a finding against them; they are officer summaries of applications still to be determined.

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