A local pub has recently got a new landlord who seems to have decided on putting in live music. Normally I’d be ok with this on the basis that the venue is set up for the purpose. However I’m not sure if they’re playing the music outside or just opening all the doors/windows to avoid heat issues.
Either way it seems to be excessively loud to me.
Here’s a link to a video I took.
https://youtu.be/sxHetY7gNwk
From where I’m stood. There are lots of trees which you’d expect to block the sound. Then an industrial unit. Then some waste land and then the back of the pub. In total I’d say around 300m
Standing outside my front door and you can hear the music pretty clearly. In fact even inside my front room you can hear it (albeit less clearly) which means turning the tv up quite a lot louder than normal.
I’m conscious that the plan is to make this a regular thing. They had an Oasis tribute on good Friday which was equally loud but I ignored that as assumed it was a one off bank holiday event.
The local council page seems to suggest they have no law to control this which seems a bit daft to me as I’m assuming they issue the license.
At the risk of sounding like a killjoy. Are the council likely to listen to a single person or is a local petition type thing needed? Whilst it’s an annoyance for me, I can stick headphones on and ignore it. However my wife’s disabled and suffers from chronic fatigue which as the name suggests makes her incredibly tired a lot of the time and the noise has really disturbed her tonight.
I’m not a confrontational man and whilst my plan is to go tomorrow and show them the above video to try and help them realise how much the noise carries I’m not sure what to try and do if they tell me to bugger off. Obviously I have no rights to force them to stop.
Either way it seems to be excessively loud to me.
Here’s a link to a video I took.
https://youtu.be/sxHetY7gNwk
From where I’m stood. There are lots of trees which you’d expect to block the sound. Then an industrial unit. Then some waste land and then the back of the pub. In total I’d say around 300m
Standing outside my front door and you can hear the music pretty clearly. In fact even inside my front room you can hear it (albeit less clearly) which means turning the tv up quite a lot louder than normal.
I’m conscious that the plan is to make this a regular thing. They had an Oasis tribute on good Friday which was equally loud but I ignored that as assumed it was a one off bank holiday event.
The local council page seems to suggest they have no law to control this which seems a bit daft to me as I’m assuming they issue the license.
At the risk of sounding like a killjoy. Are the council likely to listen to a single person or is a local petition type thing needed? Whilst it’s an annoyance for me, I can stick headphones on and ignore it. However my wife’s disabled and suffers from chronic fatigue which as the name suggests makes her incredibly tired a lot of the time and the noise has really disturbed her tonight.
I’m not a confrontational man and whilst my plan is to go tomorrow and show them the above video to try and help them realise how much the noise carries I’m not sure what to try and do if they tell me to bugger off. Obviously I have no rights to force them to stop.
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