Cr Parker will ask a council meeting tomorrow night if the same conditions of hotel trading in Newcastle can be introduced in the Cessnock Local Government Area.

He said constituents approached him regularly, citing concerns about property damage, fighting and abuse late on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, particularly in the town's centre.

Cr Parker said people expressed concern about walking late at night.

The Herald reported last month that assaults after dark in Newcastle dropped by 29 per cent following the introduction of a controversial late-night trading curfew on hotels.

A report issued by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research found that the number of assaults fell by 133 in a year in Newcastle while there was no significant change to neighbouring Hamilton, where there were no enforced trading restrictions.

The Newcastle restrictions, which started in March last year, were the first of their kind in NSW and included a 1am inner-city lockout and 3am curfew for 14 inner-city hotels.

"My question is, why can't we do this?" Cr Parker said.

"This is really something I would like to see implemented as soon as possible."

Cr Parker said he had spoken to some of the city's other councillors and believed a motion to introduce a curfew would be supported.

He was concerned about the migration of patrons between some hotels in the city and said that when patrons started roaming the streets, problems started.

Cr Parker said three hotels in Cessnock were trading until 3am at weekends.

He said people complained about property damage and fights.

"That's why the introduction of CCTV would have been fantastic but I think that has been stalled that's something else I will be following through," he said.