Licensing Charity allowed to serve alcohol and play music at pavilion

A CHARITY has won the right to sell alcohol and play live music on family fundraising events at its playing field pavilion despite neighbours’ fears it will result in fights, drug-taking, noise disturbance and road rage.

- Adam POSTANS Local Democracy Reporter [e-mail]

But South Gloucestershire councillors imposed several conditions, including that it could hold them no more than 12 times a year.

The licensing sub-committee approved an application by Beesmoor Road Playing Field in Frampton Cotterell for a premises licence to serve booze on any day from 11am to 10pm.

The charity also asked to play live and recorded music indoors and outdoors from 11am until 9pm but the panel restricted this to Fridays and Saturdays only.

There were two objections, with one resident writing that the playing field had been a focus at times for drug-taking and that the wooden play area had been vandalised.

They said the application could increase alcohol-related antisocial behaviour and drug problems. But none of the authorities, such as the police and environmental health, objected.