A Wanstead pub’s bid to host a DJ night has been challenged by Redbridge Council.
The Nightingale, in Nightingale Lane, has applied for a temporary events notice (TEN) for Saturday, 9 May.
The event will run from 7pm until 11.30pm, with DJ amplifiers set up in the main bar.
The pub is not licensed to play music and therefore needs to seek specific permission from Redbridge, under licensing law.
According to its application, a sound limiter will be in place and extra staff and bouncers will be on hand. The event will finish at 11.30pm to avoid bothering the neighbours, the pub said.
However, the council’s noise team has objected to the scheme – meaning it will need to go before the licensing committee, made up of elected councillors, for approval.
In their objection, the team said they had received a noise complaint from a resident during the last TEN on 6 March, who said the music was louder than normal.
“Upon arrival at the pub, loud music and bass could be heard at street level,” an officer wrote in a report submitted to the council.
The music exceeded the council-issued noise limiter and a former premises supervisor, who the council had stripped of his licence, had reportedly been seen behind the bar that night.
The officer added the council had “lost all faith and trust” in the venue and the team would be “obstructing both this and any future TENS applications”.
“As an authority, we have tried to work with the premises on numerous occasions but each time they have failed to follow conditions they have been set,” she said.
The Nightingale will go before the licensing committee later this week.
The pub was previously licensed to close at 2am on weekends and at midnight on weekdays. Councillors ordered it to shut earlier, at midnight and 11pm respectively, following noise complaints in March last year.
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