A pub that lost its licence for causing neighbours “absolute sheer terror and horror” and flouting Covid rules has had its right to serve pints restored, to the dismay of residents.
Bristol City Council, whose licensing sub-committee ruled last year The Bull Inn should be shut down following a request by the authority’s own neighbourhood enforcement team backed by the police, has reached an agreement allowing it to stay open. A councillor who lives yards from the premises in Crews Hole accused the local authority of “stabbing residents in the back” by not defending its decision last August at magistrates’ court after the pub launched an appeal.
The appeal case never got to a full hearing after being deferred several times, and Bristol Live has learned a deal has now been struck to rescind the ruling by a panel of elected councillors and reinstate the licence with additional conditions. The council says no further complaints have been made since then and the decision to cancel the premises licence revocation was made following legal advice and the input of the licensing sub-committee.
