London’s Drumsheds ordered to enforce new safety measures following licence review and crowd complaints

nme.com:

reported as being at risk of losing its licence late last year. This came following a series of serious incidents at the premises and a subsequent investigation being launched.Now, Enfield Council has ruled that the site has permission to remain open, but will need to enforce new safety measures going forward.An emergency licensing review was called for following the death of a 27-year-old man who had attended a Drumsheds event on October 12.

The incident is believed to be drug-related (as per Standard). On December 7, a 29-year-old woman also died in hospital after Bicep‘s The Hydra show at Drumsheds, with police believing that it was also connected to drug use.In November, a man was stabbed in the venue, with Metropolitan Police officers called to the scene.

No arrests have been made in connection with any of these three incidents, and the stabbing was later confirmed to be non-fatal.The fate of the club was set to be decided in a meeting held by the council on January 7, and it was announced that it could continue to operate until then under specific conditions.Now, according to a new report by London Centric, investigators found “serious failings” in the care provided by in-house medical staff.

It reported that one of the two attendees who died had received treatment from staff earlier in the night, but then “released back into the event” instead of being transported to a hospital or removed from the venue.The outlet also shared that a testimony claimed that the venue had not reported the incident “on the night,” ultimately delaying the “police response and subsequent investigation”.Publications such as Mixmag have also reported that Police claimed that Drumsheds had “poor searching” of customers, partly due to the.