A Bury town centre nightclub has been refused permission to extend its opening hours after a young woman was raped after leaving its premises.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) raised a formal objection after Club 66 on Silver Street submitted an application to temporarily extend its opening hours this weekend.

Clubs owners Jack Abedi and Daniel Lanford asked the council for permission to stay open and to serve alcohol between 4am and 5am on Saturday and Sunday.

The application was refused after police said there had been “disregard” for license conditions on several occasions.

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This included allowing customers entry and exit outside of operating hours and failure to provide CCTV images to police in a timely manner, in one case a month after an incident.

Bury district licensing officer, PC Peter Eccleston said there have been nine or 10 crimes attributed to the club since it opened in summer last year.

He said: “Since the premises licence was transferred there has been a number of incidents.

“An application to review the premises licence has been submitted.

“The club is operating with disregard for the licensing objectives and therefore the licencing objectives are undermined.”

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In addition to the rape of the young woman, PC Eccleston described several other incidents connected to the club including one in which a customer smashed a window, another in which a customer was hit over the head with a bottle.

He also said a female member of staff had been sexual assaulted by another member of staff but that this had not occurred on the premises.

He also told the committee that club management has failed to fix a fault with the CCTV in the club which had caused footage to be wiped.

Mr Abedi said he was working closely with the police in regards to all the incidents raised by PC Eccleston, including the incidents of rape and sexual assault.

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Referencing the incident in which the customer was assaulted with a glass bottle, Mr Langford said the perpetrator had been ejected from the club and that he had handed CCTV footage of the incident over to police.

He also told the committee that the club had gone “above and beyond” to assist police with their investigations, and had hired an electrician to fix the fault with the CCTV system.

Few details were given regarding the nature of the event planned for the weekend, except that Mr Abedi had paid £10,000 plus VAT for an “an artist” to attend it.

Concluding, barrister Malcolm Hope said: "The decision of the council is to give a counter notice.

“The panel [is] concerned that existing conditions are not being complied with. “

“The panel can’t be satisfied that the licensing notice would not be imperilled [by the event].”