A bar will close down next month after an official found a 42-year-old planning condition that everyone had forgotten about. Jason Hamer, who owns the CFeleven bar in Cardiff, said the "ridiculous" situation has cost five staff their jobs.
The owners of CFeleven, on Cathedral Road, opened an upmarket gin bar six years ago after around 40 years of running as just a bed and breakfast. They obtained permission for an alcohol licence at the time and had become a popular venue.
But the gin bar will now have to shut down at the end of January after a Cardiff council officer reportedly trawled decades of archives and found the B&B was originally approved on the basis that its bar would only be open to "residents of the hotel".
