Permission for the variation of a premises licence is being sought as part of plans to revitalise a former restaurant in a South Lakeland village.
The new owners of what was once Gado Gado along The Promenade, Arnside, want to invest in and modernise the site.
“The business will serve food and drink, and extended hours will enable them to provide a more flexible service for the local people,” says the submission to South Lakes District Councl from Matthew Jackson.
The application is seeking approval to sell alcohol, for consumption on and off the premises. Opening hours of 8am to midnight, seven days a week, have also been requested, as has permission for an updated floorplan to increase the areas for licensable activities.
Objections to the application have raised concerns about the potential for disturbance from noise and odour.
Basil Herwald, who lives along The Promenade, says in his representation: “We cannot understand why any such bar would need to be open beyond 11pm. It will be noted that the other pubs in the village cannot open beyond 11pm, and we already suffer with noise from outside one of them beyond that hour.
“Our major concern is a rowdy group of persons who have taken alcohol coming out onto The Promenade at and after midnight every single night of the year, potentially disturbing local residents.”
Martin Rowe says cooking odours and extractor fan noise from the site in question were ‘noticeable’ when it was trading as a restaurant.
He says the potential resurfacing of these issues ‘from early morning until midnight’ would be ‘detrimental to the amenity of residents in neighbouring properties, including my own’.
The site in question currently has permission to open and to sell alcohol, for consumption on the premises, seven days a week between the hours of 11.30am and 11pm.
The present licence also permits it to play recorded music seven days a week between the hours of 11.30am and 11pm.
The application is due to be scrutinised by South Lakeland District Council’s licensing sub-committee on October 13. This meeting was due to take place on Monday but was adjourned.
