Sunny Sharma, manager at Charka Lounge, in Fitzalan Square, is calling on the authority to address the 'growing' number of homeless people in Sheffield City Centre.
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00:00I mean, I can't tell police to kick them out. It's not right.
00:04I mean, they have right. They are living beings.
00:07I'm not telling council or police to kick them out from here.
00:11Where are they going to go? They will go somewhere else.
00:14Then they will be pushed out from there. They will go somewhere else.
00:17They will be pushed out from there.
00:19So, I don't know if council can find a solution for it.
00:23If council can keep a strong eye on it.
00:26Or pinpoint the main solution. Or pinpoint the main problem behind it.
00:31That would be helpful.
00:33Instead of just kicking them from one area to another area.
00:37Which is not a solution.
00:39So, yeah. I mean, throughout.
00:42Through this, from your voice, from our voice.
00:46If council can find a solution for that.
00:49And help them.
00:51Or send someone to keep an eye on this area.
00:54So, if that thing is not an issue for people.
00:58For coming this side.
01:00For the businesses like us.
01:02Or other businesses which are around us.
01:05To face all those problems.
01:07Any kind of help. Any kind of solution.
01:11Will be grateful for us.
01:14And for this square as well.
01:16This basically has turned into a living area.
01:19Or spotting area for people.
01:21You said earlier that you ask your staff not to come in through the back door.
01:27Yeah, the thing is, they are here.
01:30And they drink sometimes.
01:32And they fight.
01:34And I don't want my staff to be involved somehow in that situation.
01:39And be a part of it.
01:41Or get injured or anything.
01:43Because we don't know how the outcome is going to be in their fight.
01:48So, we have a back door.
01:50We have a back door.
01:51We use it to throw bins out and stuff out.
01:54But I've been told.
01:56I mean, I've told them not to come this way anymore.
02:01And we can hear them screaming in our kitchen.
02:03Because it's right there.
02:05So, we can hear them.
02:07So, I tell them from inside that, okay.
02:09No one goes from back door.
02:12That's affecting them as well basically.