A fancy cocktail bar aimed at women has been granted permission to open until 3.30am below dozens of apartments in Bristol city centre despite neighbours’ objections. Adventure Bar was given a premises licence to sell alcohol until midnight on the ground floor of vacant offices at 28 Baldwin Street and 3am on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays in the larger basement area, which has a capacity of 350 people, and 2am on other nights, with it closing half an hour later.
Twenty-eight residents objected to the application with concerns that noise, antisocial behaviour and cigarette smoke drifting up from a designated outside area would harm their mental health and quality of life. Leaseholder Rob Mitchell told a Bristol City Council licensing sub-committee hearing on Thursday, March 31: “It’s the wrong use in the wrong location in the wrong building.
A nightclub below 53 homes, seven days a week, with large numbers of inebriated people is going to be very difficult. This will cause anxiety to families living above. The proposed use is in conflict with the existing use, which is residential. The people were here first.”
