A Kingston shop has lost a battle to sell alcohol until 1am after the Met Police raised concerns it would lead to a rise in antisocial behaviour.

Victoria News, at Chessington North station, wanted to extend its opening hours and sell booze until 12am on Mondays to Thursdays, 1am on Fridays and Saturdays and 11pm on Sundays.

Kingston Council's Licensing Committee rejected the plans after ruling the shop extending its hours would cause problems for residents.

The decision came after the police, public health and environmental health raised concerns the extended hours would allow drunk customers to buy more alcohol and disturb neighbours, at a hearing on 10 December.

The authorities said there was no shop in the area that stayed open past 11pm.

Lawyer Armin Solimani, representing the police, said incidents of antisocial behaviour concerning the shop had been reported, while it had also breached conditions on its licence – including storing CCTV recordings for 21 instead of 31 days and failing to provide training records.

He said the operator had been "careless" and the police did not trust him to properly manage the risks brought about by extending the shop's opening hours.

Mr Solimani said: "We think the risk of extending the hours… is that firstly people get drunker and drunker as the night goes on, so you're more likely to see criminality, you're more likely to see antisocial behaviour at those times of night.

"You have less passive surveillance because you have less people around the area, it gets quiet, and you also have this problem that, this being the last open place because everywhere stopped selling alcohol at 11pm, it means people are going to congregate here when they want to buy alcohol – in this large empty car park surrounded by residential premises."

Louise Gallagher, the council's public health primary care lead for substance misuse, added: "Public health believes that as Victoria News would be the only off sales licensed premises in the locality selling alcohol after 11pm, this would encourage people who have already consumed alcohol on a night out and whose judgement will be impaired to purchase more alcohol on their way home, causing disorder and public nuisance."

Consultant Noel Samaroo, representing the business, said the operator was not aware of any antisocial behaviour or other problems at the shop.

He said many residents had asked for the shop to open later for their convenience, while the operator had a good relationship with the community and said there was no evidence to support the concerns raised.

Mr Samaroo said: "My main concern with this is that every representation seems to be harping on at what could happen… as long as he is running the premises in the correct manner, he does everything that he's supposed to do, there should not be any reason why there should be any difficulties at the premises."

Mr Samaroo told the hearing the shop being allowed to extend its hours would 'make a difference between it being a successful business and a business that's just paying the bills'. He added the operator had addressed the breaches of the shop's licence identified by the police and that staff would be retrained in the new year.

But a new report on the committee's decision to throw out the plans, said residents had experienced an increase in nuisance and noise disturbance, which would be made worse by the extended hours.

 It said the evidence showed there was already a problem with antisocial behaviour in the area, even before 11pm.

The report added: "The area included a car park that was open and uncontrolled all night, where people would gather and congregate creating noise and disturbance as well as possible drug dealing etc. An extension to the hours of alcohol sales would serve to extend this behaviour."

The shop is still allowed to sell booze until 11pm on Mondays to Saturdays, and up to 10.30pm on Sundays.