A highly contentious bid by a city centre karaoke bar and restaurant to open until 5am has been halted by police.
Miss Pho on Renshaw Street has lodged an application with Liverpool Council for an alcohol licence seeking to trade until 3am. The request, submitted by Trong Quy Nguyen, also requested the playing of live music at the Vietnamese venue until 5am.
However, according to a report released by the local authority, Merseyside Police have stepped in to curb those ambitions, with an agreement being reached with the force and applicant that alcohol would only be served until 1am if a licence was granted by councillors next week. In addition, a proposed closure of 5am would be replaced by a terminal hour of 2am.
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The proposals will be considered by a trio of council members at Liverpool Town Hall next week. The report said that Miss Pho bosses had also agreed to the installation of CCTV cameras and the primary use of the premises shall be that of a restaurant and alcohol will only be sold as an ancillary to the provision of food.
Door staff will be employed on site when the premises is to operate beyond midnight, the report said. No further concerns have been raised by relevant bodies including the council itself or public health.
The plans have been met with half a dozen objections from residents around Renshaw Street. One written submission said: “I have had to complain to the owner of Miss Pho several times on an almost nightly basis since the business opened, on account of the extremely loud, thumping music blaring from their premises through my floors and walls into all the rooms of my flat, nearly every night”.
The objector added that it had “brought about the virtual destruction of my life” and had been a “a bag of nerves and unable to sleep due to the conditioning effect of Miss Pho's music and the prospect of having to return to the unbearable nights in my own flat on account of their noise levels.”
Another wrote that an extension of the licence would “cause significant harm to residents in the area.” One person who wrote to Liverpool Council said tenants in a nearby property had been “subjected to intolerable levels of noise intrusion from loud music which emanates from the restaurant for most of the time that it operates, and typically until the early hours of the morning”.
Councillors will discuss whether to award the licence on Friday, September 16.
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