Pepe’s Peri Peri on St Andrews Road can now open until midnight after Glasgow’s licensing committee handed the owners a late hours catering licence. Glasgow City Council received 11 objections to the late hours bid, including from local councillors Jon Molyneux, Greens, and Norman MacLeod, SNP. One objector told the city’s licensing committee: “Pepe’s, as they currently trade, causes a number of issues for us. Niall Hassard, the licensing lawyer representing Pepe’s, said his clients’ association with the restaurant had been “fairly short-lived”. Late hours catering licences are generally not granted beyond midnight if the premises are in a tenement, with residents above.