Queries over town pub licence
Monday 19th January 2009, 12:47PM GMT.
A Shropshire pub which closed its doors after being slapped with a noise abatement order by council chiefs has opened with new tenants – but officials today said it should still be closed.
Officers at Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council said the correct paperwork has not been submitted and the Albert Pub in Smithfield Road should not be operating.
And the pub’s owners Marston’s said they were unaware that the Albert had reopened.
But a spokeswoman for SABC’s licensing department said they were unaware of a new “designated premises supervisor” at the pub.
“They should not have been open over the weekend,” she added.
A spokesman for Marston’s said they were not aware of any change of circumstances at the pub.
He said: “The current licensees of The Albert pub are leaving the business.
“We have appointed a new operator and hope to have the pub open and trading by the end of next week.”
Nobody from the Albert was available to comment on the licence situation.
The Albert’s former tenants closed the pub after a noise abatement notice issued by SABC prevented them from hosting live band nights at the B-Side venue they launched in an upstairs room.
The pub is not expected to be offering live music on the premises any longer.
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typical marstons
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Great! No reason to go there any more.
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Typical Council
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says it all about not along marston’s but SABC aswell. shrewsbury used to be an exciting and vibrant night out and well known in the midlands.
no it has been spoilt by a pompus stuck up council who to be honest don’t know their fingers from their thumbs.
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Yes. How dare neighbours find noise a problem?
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This is brilliant.
The council close down the B-Side to accomodate one complaint, and then realise The Albert shouldn’t have reopened so soon because the correct paperwork wasn’t submitted.
Clearly the council not only have no idea what is wanted in this town but they don’t even know what goes on in their offices!
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Suspect that the council’s disproportionate action stems from a fixation a few council folk have with an image they want to impose on the town – evident by pretentious new artworks and an unnecessary expensive new theatre. No place in their grand vision it seems for anything as simple and traditional as a rock music pub.
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No live music so I won’t be going.
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myself and my boyf used to love drinking in the albert: great music and a brilliant atmosphere without it ever being too crowded and there was never any trouble!!
we popped in there on our way into town last night (its on our way and we were early to meet friends)only to find…no atmosphere what-so-ever!! (though that may have been due to the fact that we were the only two people in there…on a saturday evening!!)the place resembled an abandoned pub in the middle of the country, not a town! The woman who served us was rude, the jukebox had been replaced with some dated looking thing and some rubbish reality show was playing on the tv.
the albert used to be a thriving place that would have been filling up by that time on a saturday, with a band playing upstairs, last night it seemed it would not be long before the new tennant shuts up and place stands abandoned.
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