Planners have approved investment at a Blackpool working men’s club despite objectors raising concerns about noise from karaoke and other activities. The scheme includes a new entrance with a glazed canopy and a small outdoor seating area. While residents expressed fears about increased noise, the council argued that such concerns fall under licensing and environmental protection, rather than planning, matters.
Planners have given the go ahead for investment at a Blackpool working men’s club despite objectors claiming they are subject to noise from “awful karaoke”.
A report setting out the decision adds: “Such facilities have an important role in developing and maintaining community inclusion and cohesion and help to create and maintain sustainable neighbourhoods, which the scheme will facilitate.” An objection lodged with the council says in the past doors have been opened during warm weather with residents “then subjected to club acts singing and loud music or worse still awful karaoke, drowning out our peace when wishing to use the gardens, or on warm summer nights, disturbing sleep”.
The planning report added: “However as the social club is a long-standing lawful use and this application does not propose an extension/intensification of the use it is not something that could be controlled through planning.”
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