Evesham News

Concern over application for pub to open until 3am

By Sarah Taylor

9:30pm Friday 27th January 2012

RESIDENTS who live near the Talbot Hotel in Evesham are unhappy after plans to serve alcohol and play music well into the early hours of the morning were submitted.

Rajmund Piasecki, who is subleasing the ground floor of the hotel on Port Street, Bengeworth, re-submitted the licensing application last Thursday after a previous one was dismissed.

The pub is currently closed but it is being refurbished and is set to reopen soon.

Hazel Rees lives on Church Street just yards from the pub.

“To me it smacks of being a club. We don’t mind the pub being open if it closes at the same time as other pubs in the area,” she said.

Alan Booth, town councillor and licensee of the Angel Vaults on Port Street, said the application was viewed with trepidation after local publicans agreed in 2005 they would not stay open past 1am.

Julie Mayo, who also lives on Church Street with her fouryear- old son, said: “What happens at 3am when all those people leave?

“I don’t want my son to grow up near that.”

The application seeks to allow the sale of alcohol and the playing of recorded music and dancing between 10am and 11pm on Monday to Wednesday, until midnight on Thursday, through to 3am on Friday and Saturday and until 11.30pm on a Sunday.

It would also allow live music on Friday and Saturday between 9pm and midnight and until 11pm on Sunday.

Mr Piasecki, who also co-owns Polish restaurant Via Cracow on Port Street, said: “I will talk with residents. I realise they have a right to their say. I understand, but it is a pub and it will be open to everyone.

“It is a nice old building and it will be good to keep the building’s character. I will keep to the terms set by the police of security and CCTV cameras and I will put some special additional information when the people leave to keep quiet.

We will not play club music and will do what we can to respect the residents.“ The closing date for people to make comments on this application is Friday, February 17.

All representations should be sent to Wychavon District Council.

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