West Mid Showground bosses will have to stop playing music by midnight after a raft of conditions were imposed on them following concerns from residents.
Commercial director of the Shropshire and West Midlands Agricultural Society Gary Tudor had applied for the Shrewsbury showground to be able to open from 8am until 4.30am seven days a week.
He also wanted to be able to have outdoor recorded and live music until 11.59pm and the same indoors until 4am to enable other events to take place throughout the year to help secure the future of the charity.
But at a meeting last week residents raised serious concerns that their peace and quiet would be shattered by loud music being played into the early hours.
Now Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council’s licensing sub-committee has ruled that outside regulated entertainment - including live and recorded music - must end by 11.30pm, while the same indoors must end by midnight.
The showground will be able to serve alcohol from 10am until 12.30am and be able to open from 8am until 1.30am Monday to Sunday.
At a meeting yesterday the committee also imposed more than 40 conditions which the showground must comply with.
Windows and doors of the members’ pavilion will have to be closed when live music is being played, while recorded music will have to be controlled so it can not be heard outside of the showground.
Noise limiters will also have to be installed in the president’s and members’ pavilions and acceptable noise levels will be set out by an environmental health officer.
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NIMBY’s strike again!
At last a bit of common sense is prevailing the residents who live in ear shot have also the same right as every one else to a peaceful nights sleep.
thank goodness for a quiet night and early to bed for our animal friends, who i understand don’t drink much and have hints and tips for the binge fraternity
Dancin, that is why we having licensing rules. To ensure people are not harmed or annoyed in their back yard.
I’m sure Dancin would be only too happy to have music playing in their neighbourhood til 4.30am every day. NOT !!!
Surely midnight is late enough for any reasonable person. Why should the majority be inconvenienced for the pleasure of a small minority?
Good. But will Mr Tudor repeat his assertion that the future of the agricultural society is in jeopardy as a result? And can he explain exactly what the society’s charitable functions are?
not sure gloucester old spot pigs can dance, but friesans may tango!
every comment but dancins’ just confirms that shrewsbury is destined to become an entertainment graveyard.
flowers look lovely though..
When will people make considered choices on where they live. If you want a quiet life don’t move to an area with a large public venue in the vicinity.
Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2007 was brilliant but these new regs will kill off this big annual event if we cannot even continue personal acoustic music making outside our tents after 11.30pm. Also live music inside with doors & windows closed at the height of Summer, is the audience really expected to suffer this.
Many many folk festivals happen successfully around the UK and most places welcome them as a source of revenue and publicity for their area. The really happy ones do condone reasonable live music making after midnight in moderation. As spencer stated it could be the begining of the end.
Our regular folk sessions in South Cheshire canal side hostelries take place with open doors and windows in the Summer, and where musicians and the visiting holidaymakers enjoy live folk music and singing along with many locals to way beyond ‘pumpkin time’ (midnight).
Certainly less troublesome than boy racers screeching round the streets or drunken footie fans on the loose.
I ask again: who exactly do these people think they are? The council imposes some perfectly sensible conditions on their licence, and they get on their high horse, as if they’re astonished that anyone dare stand in their way. How astonishingly arrogant! And I’m still waiting for an explanation of the society’s supposed charitable activities.