A PUB is to have its licence reviewed after neighbours complained of “terrible noise” and “drunken raucous behaviour”.
Residents near The Anchor Inn in Bridge Road, Sutton Bridge, claim they have been unable to sleep at night because of people leaving the pub until 3am.
They also say pub-goers have tossed beer cans and bottles into their garden and things such as street bollards and plants have been vandalised.
The pub licensees will appear before a panel of South Holland District Council licensing committee on Monday where members will consider an application by the council’s safety and environment team to review their licence on the grounds that “noise from amplified music is causing a public nuisance by being audible within adjacent premises”.
The panel will be told how the safety and environment team were first contacted in August last year after a resident had tried to tackle the problem of noise from the pub directly with the licensee.
Recording equipment was used in the neighbour’s home on several occasions between August and December and recorded levels of noise which interfered with their daily lives.
In September an abatement notice was issued but the residents continued to complain about the noise.
Referring to one recording the day after the abatement notice was issued, a report to the licensing panel says: “The music was clearly audible in the garden and inside the house with windows and doors closed.
“The noise was audible in all rooms in the house and was worse in the upstairs bedroom where it was considered to be such that it would hinder sleep.”
On another occasion in December the resident again contacted the team, describing the noise as “atrociously loud”.
In a letter to the panel, the resident says: “There is also a problem for us as they park directly in front of our house and make a terrible noise when leaving.
“As we live some 100 yards from this pub and find all these disturbances upsetting we feel sorry for the people living nearer as the noise and disturbance must be absolutely intolerable for them.”
The pub is now being monitored with a view to prosecuting should evidence be obtained that it is in breach of the abatement notice.