Sydney authorities look set to loosen their grip on the city’s nightlife by lifting alcohol bans across dozens of streets and parks.

In recent years the city council has been cracking down on anti-social behaviour and alcohol-fuelled violence with strict measures banning public drinking in nearly 400 zones across the capital. The council has also introduced controversial lock-out laws banning customers from entering pubs and clubs after 1.30am.

The Daily Telegraph reports Lord Mayor Clover Moore is now set to scrap 62 alcohol-free zones, mostly in the suburbs of Darlinghurst, Newtown, Surry Hills, Redfern, Waterloo, Alexandria, Erskineville and Rosebury.

Councillors are due to vote on the move next week, which comes as the government prepares to reconsider its harsh lock-out laws in a meeting with nightclub owners.

Since the lock-out rules were introduced at the beginning of last year, over 40 bars, clubs and small businesses have closed down in Sydney’s nightlife hotspot Kings Cross.

A ban on new pub and club licenses in central Sydney was recently extended to February 2017.

Meanwhile, as clubbers attempt to find a way round the lock-outs and alcohol bans the city’s emerging bunker rave community has been going from strength to strength – watch a documentary about the underground scene. [via News.com.au, Stoney Roads]